The Pied Piper
“Come children of the universe, let Donovan take you away, far far away.”
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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Donovan
The Pied Piper
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Jacques Demy Director · Andrew Birkin Writer Mark Peploe Writer
Budget $1.5M · First release December 27, 1972 · Produced in Germany, United Kingdom, United States
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Budget
$1,500,000
Production
Goodtimes Enterprises
Production
Sagittarius Productions
Production
Paramount Pictures
Studio · Production
Germany · United Kingdom · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · December 27, 1972
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
December 31, 1975 · Theatrical
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