Overview

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