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when Hans becomes entranced by the arrival of a visiting baroness

and redemption

A student at a peculiar school for servants gradually uncovers its secrets and

visual effects historian Justin Humphreys and assistant Larry Franco

The Pied Piper W/SLIP USED Crescendo House when Hans becomes entranced by1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Jir Barta's stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words.