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.
Cast
Donovan
The Pied Piper
Diana Dors
Frau Poppendick
Donald Pleasence
The Baron
Roy Kinnear
Burgermeister Poppendick
John Hurt
Franz
Michael Hordern
Melius, Alchemist
Jack Wild
Gavin
Peter Vaughan
Bishop
Keith Buckley
Mattio
Cathryn Harrison
Lisa
Peter Eyre
Pilgrim
David Leland
Officer
Patsy Puttnam
Helga
Arthur Hewlett
Otto
Paul Hennen
Karl
Michael Goldie
Burger
André van Gyseghem
Friar
John Falconer
Priest
Clive Elliot
Priest
Sammie Winmill
Gretel
John Welsh
Chancellor
David Nettheim
Kulik (as David Netheim)
Gertan Klauber
Town Cryer
Hamilton Dyce
Papal Nuncio
Roger Hammond
Burger
Edwin Brown
Burger
George Cormack
Burger
Mary MacLeod
Maidservant (as Mary McLeod)
Harry Fielder
Flunky (uncredited)
Sacha Puttnam
Little Boy (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Burger (uncredited)
Crew
Jacques Demy
Director, Writer
Andrew Birkin
Writer
Mark Peploe
Writer
John Trumper
Editor
Peter Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Sanford Lieberson
Producer
David Puttnam
Producer
Gavrik Losey
Associate Producer
Assheton Gorton
Production Design
Evangeline Harrison
Costume Designer
Mary Gibson
Wardrobe Master
John Lundsten
Sound Assistant
Alan Bell
Sound
Tony Jackson
Sound
Doug Turner
Sound
Donovan
Music
