The read
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 30m.
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 13 points higher than critics do.
36 audience votes
Key crew
- Jacques DemyDirector
- Jacques DemyWriter
- Andrew BirkinWriter
- Mark PeploeWriter
Cast
- DonovanThe Pied Piper
- Diana DorsFrau Poppendick
- Donald PleasenceThe Baron
- Roy KinnearBurgermeister Poppendick
- John HurtFranz
- Michael HordernMelius, Alchemist
- Jack WildGavin
- Peter VaughanBishop
- Keith BuckleyMattio
- Cathryn HarrisonLisa
- Peter EyrePilgrim
- David LelandOfficer