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The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

1972, Movie, 1h 30min

The classic story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to life courtesy of French New Wave magician Jacques Demy. Psych-folk legend Donovan plays the titular, magic-flute-playing troubadour, who encounters greed and corruption when he arrives in a fourteenth-century German town in the grip of the Black Plague. Demy’s ever-imaginative costumes and production design and a surprising cast that includes John Hurt, Donald Pleasence, and Diana Dors provide some of the many pleasures in this offbeat blend of dark-tinged fairy tale, medieval pageantry, and flower-child bohemianism.

Country: United Kingdom,Germany

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Donald Pleasence,

Michael Hordern,

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as The Pied Piper include The Magus, Lost Horizon, The Believer's Heaven, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Céline and Julie Go Boating.