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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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Director
Jiří Barta
Written by
Kamil Pixa
Cinematographers
Ivan Vít, Vladimír Malík
Origin countries
Germany, Czechoslovakia
Runtime
53m
Language
cs
Rating
NR
Also known as
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
TMDB
7.4/10 (76 votes)
IMDb
7.8/10 (1,876 votes)
Released July 29, 1986·Krysař

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