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.
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Donovan as The Pied Piper
Diana Dors as Frau Poppendick
Donald Pleasence as The Baron
Roy Kinnear as Burgermeister Poppendick
John Hurt as Franz
Michael Hordern as Melius, Alchemist
Jack Wild as Gavin
Peter Vaughan as Bishop
Keith Buckley as Mattio
Cathryn Harrison as Lisa
Peter Eyre as Pilgrim
David Leland as Officer
Patsy Puttnam as Helga
Arthur Hewlett as Otto
Paul Hennen as Karl
Michael Goldie as Burger
André van Gyseghem as Friar
John Falconer as Priest
Clive Elliot as Priest
Sammie Winmill as Gretel
John Welsh as Chancellor
David Nettheim as Kulik (as David Netheim)
Gertan Klauber as Town Cryer
Hamilton Dyce as Papal Nuncio
Roger Hammond as Burger
Edwin Brown as Burger
George Cormack as Burger
Mary MacLeod as Maidservant (as Mary McLeod)
Harry Fielder as Flunky (uncredited)
Sacha Puttnam as Little Boy (uncredited)
Fred Wood as Burger (uncredited)
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