The Pied Piper (1986)
- HD 1080
- Runtime: 56m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: cs
- Country: Czechoslovakia, Germany
- Director: Jiří Barta
- Stars: Oldřich Kaiser, Jiří Lábus, Michal Pavlíček, Vilém Čok
- keywords: stop motion, based on fairy tale, expressionism, rat, dark fairy tale, pied piper, piper
- Production_studio: TV 2000 Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH, Krátký film Praha, Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
- providers: Fandor Amazon Channel, Midnight Pulp
- The The Pied Piper is featured in the top rankings of 1986
- #2 in Top Animation of 1986
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.
