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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 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.
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- Director
- Jiří Barta
- Written by
- Kamil Pixa
- Composer
- Michael Kocáb
- Cinematographers
- Ivan Vít, Vladimír Malík
- Editor
- Helena Lebdušková
- Studios
- Krátký film Praha, Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky, TV 2000 Film und Fernsehproduktions
- Origin countries
- Germany, Czechoslovakia
- Runtime
- 53m
- Language
- Czech
- Rating
- NR
- Also known as
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin
- TMDB
- 7.5/10 (84 votes)
- IMDb
- 7.8/10 (1,876 votes)
Released July 29, 1986·Krysař
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