The Pied Piper

Name: The Pied Piper
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1986-07-29T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.5

About The Pied Piper

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 the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.

Jiří Barta's The Pied Piper is a 1986 animation fantasy film. Oldřich Kaiser stars as (voice), Jiří Lábus as (voice), Michal Pavlíček as (voice), and Vilém Čok as (voice).

It runs 53 minutes and was released in July 1986. Written by Kamil Pixa.

Shelv files it under stop motion, dark fantasy, surreal, and greed. In the United States it streams on Cineverse Amazon Channel, Eternal Family, and Fandor Amazon Channel. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 85 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

Dimensions of Dialogue, The Hand, and A Christmas Dream make useful companions to The Pied Piper, all filed under central europe, czech animation, and czech fantasy.