The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper
Release: 1972-12-27
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 5.9
Fantasy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Germany
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Goodtimes Enterprises
Sagittarius Productions
Cast
John Hurt
as Franz
David Leland
as Officer
Arthur Hewlett
as Otto
John Welsh
as Chancellor
Diana Dors
as Frau Poppendick
Donald Pleasence
as The Baron
André van Gyseghem
as Friar
Peter Vaughan
as Bishop
Roger Hammond
as Burger
Jack Wild
as Gavin
Keith Buckley
as Mattio
David Nettheim
as Kulik (as David Netheim)
Peter Eyre
as Pilgrim
Donovan
as The Pied Piper
Roy Kinnear
as Burgermeister Poppendick
Michael Hordern
as Melius, Alchemist
Cathryn Harrison
as Lisa
Patsy Puttnam
as Helga
Hamilton Dyce
as Papal Nuncio
