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The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper

Come children of the universe, let Donovan take you away, far far away.
Dec 27, 1972 1h 30m
5.9
32 votes

Synopsis

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.

Title The Pied Piper
Companies Goodtimes Enterprises, Sagittarius Productions
Countries Germany, United Kingdom
Keywords revenge, witchcraft, based on fairy tale, plague, 14th century, piper