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The Pied Piper

“Come children of the universe, let Donovan take you away, far far away.”

1972 · 1 h 26 min
Directed by Jacques Demy
DramaFantasyMusical

Cast

Cast not recorded here

Plot

In 14th-century Hamelin, a piper rids the town of rats, and when the town refuses to pay, he takes the children, amid the plague.

Sinekatalog’s take

Jacques Demy's British musical-fantasy, with Donovan, Jack Wild and Donald Pleasence, is grim, strange and visually rich, an odd, half-forgotten work.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.3 / 10 (1,077 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.