The Pied Piper

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.

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  Jacques Demy

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  Donovan
  The Pied Piper
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  Diana Dors
  Frau Poppendick
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  Donald Pleasence
  The Baron
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  Roy Kinnear
  Burgermeister Poppendick
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  John Hurt
  Franz
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  Michael Hordern
  Melius, Alchemist
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  Jack Wild
  Gavin
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  Peter Vaughan
  Bishop
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  Keith Buckley
  Mattio
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  Cathryn Harrison
  Lisa
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  Peter Eyre
  Pilgrim
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  David Leland
  Officer
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  Patsy Puttnam
  Helga
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  Arthur Hewlett
  Otto
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  Paul Hennen
  Karl
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  Michael Goldie
  Burger
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  André van Gyseghem
  Friar
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  John Falconer
  Priest
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  Clive Elliot
  Priest
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  Sammie Winmill
  Gretel