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The Pied Piper (1972)
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.
Updated May 27 2020
Cast
Roy Kinnear
Burgermeister Poppendick
John Hurt
Franz
Donald Pleasence
The Baron
Michael Hordern
Melius, Alchemist
Diana Dors
Frau Poppendick
Jack Wild
Gavin
Crew
Peter Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Peter Suschitzky
Cinematography
Jacques Demy
Director
