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The Pied Piper (1972)

★ 5.9/10 90 min Fantasy, Drama Germany, United Kingdom English
Director: Jacques Demy
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Come children of the universe, let Donovan take you away, far far away.

Description

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

Top Cast

Donovan
Donovan The Pied Piper
Diana Dors
Diana Dors Frau Poppendick
Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence The Baron
Roy Kinnear
Roy Kinnear Burgermeister Poppendick
John Hurt
John Hurt Franz
Michael Hordern
Michael Hordern Melius, Alchemist
Jack Wild
Jack Wild Gavin
Peter Vaughan
Peter Vaughan Bishop

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