The Pied Piper

Name: The Pied Piper
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Animation
Released: 1986-07-29
Duration: 56 min
Cast: Oldřich Kaiser, Michal Pavlíček, Jiří Lábus, Vilém Čok

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Release Date

7/29/1986

Runtime

56 mins

Genres

Horror Fantasy Animation

Overview

A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of Czechoslovakia's most ambitious animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

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Released

Original Language

Czech

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A haunting, dialogue-free nightmare rendered in expressive stop-motion where a swarm of rats becomes both plague and punishment for a town's moral decay. Visually inventive and deeply unsettling, it treats a children's tale as genuine horror.