The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1918

1h 9m

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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.

Directors

Paul Wegener

Writers

Paul Wegener(writer by)

Stars

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Elsa Wagner

Lyda Salmonova

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Wilhelm Diegelmann

Bürgermeister (Mayor)

Elsa Wagner

Frau des Bürgermeisters (Mayor's Wife)

Lyda Salmonova

Ursula, Tochter des Bürgermeisters (Mayor's Daughter)

Märte Rassow

Märte

Jakob Tiedtke

Ratsapotheker (Council Pharmacist)

Armin Schweizer

Magerer Ratsherr (Skinny Councilor)

Paul Wegener

Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)

Clemens Kaufung

Schinderknecht

Hans Sturm

Henker (Hangman)

Directors

Paul Wegener

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Paul Wegener(writer by)

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The founding of the Weimar Republic marks the beginning of the golden age of German cinema. After the imperial rule and the horrors of the First World War, the sudden „shock of freedom“ is reflected in the escapist comedies, glamorous spectacles and dark screen fantasies of the film. Wegener’s fantastic films are the roots of expressionism and escapism in German film of the twenties. Based on one of the most famous German legends „Rattenfänger von Hameln“ („Pied Piper of Hamelin“ or „Rat-Catcher of Hamelin“) written down by the Brothers Grimm. The rats shown in the film following the traveler out of town were „wooden rats“. Working with trained animals had proved impossible. Instead, they made wood rats and filmed them in a stop-motion process. 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 is preserved in incomplete / fragmentary form!

Le_Schpountz13 Sep, 2020