Movie
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1918 · 69 min
A shadowy, fragmentary silent fable that drifts like a half-remembered legend, unsettling more through mood and missing pieces than through spectacle.
- Directed by
- Paul Wegener
- Genres
- Fantasy
- Starring
- Wilhelm Diegelmann, Elsa Wagner, Lyda Salmonova
- Overview
- A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.
- How it feels
- Eerie, dark, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Betrayal, greed, revenge, power
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Paul Wegener
- Genres
- Fantasy
- Starring
- Wilhelm Diegelmann, Elsa Wagner, Lyda Salmonova
