The Pied Piper

Year: 1985

Runtime: 56 mins

Language: Czech

Director: Jiří Barta

FantasyHorrorAnimation

A darkly brilliant stop‑motion retelling of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, in which a swarm of rats ravages a town whose citizens are consumed by greed. Produced in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, it stands as one of the country's most ambitious animation efforts, distinguished by its unsettling, shadow‑rich visual style, inventive stop‑motion techniques, and a fully invented language spoken by the characters.

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