Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 53 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Czech
- Country
- XC, Germany
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Czech — subtitles on.
The story
A darkly brilliant stop-motion adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin about a plague of rats that punish townsfolk corrupt with greed. One of the most ambitious Czech animation projects of the 1980s, notable for its unusual dark art direction, innovative animation techniques and use of a fictitious language.
- greed
- surreal
- surrealism
- europe
- community
- mysterious man
- stop motion
- period drama
- dark fantasy
- based on fairy tale
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Directed
- Jiří Barta
- Written
- Kamil Pixa
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 84 ratings
- Studio
- TV 2000 Film und Fernsehproduktions, Krátký film Praha, Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
