Krysař (English: The Pied Piper of Hamelin) is a 1985 Czechoslovak stop motion-animated feature film directed by Jiří Barta. The story is a modified adaptation of the traditional fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
It was one of the Trnka Studio's (named after Czechoslovak animation pioneer Jiří Trnka) most ambitious projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual da...
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Krysař (English: The Pied Piper of Hamelin) is a 1985 Czechoslovak stop motion-animated feature film directed by Jiří Barta. The story is a modified adaptation of the traditional fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.
It was one of the Trnka Studio's (named after Czechoslovak animation pioneer Jiří Trnka) most ambitious projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and lack of almost any understandable dialogue (similar to the more recent One Night in One City and The Triplets of Belleville). Except for the narrated introduction, all words spoken in the film are gibberish. The art design relates heavily to the one of the German Expressionism of the 1920s, and has been compared to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The literal translation of the Czech title is "The Rat Catcher."
The film starts with the image of a mechanism beginning to work - as the gears move ...
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