Summary: 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. (imdb)

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Genres: Drama, Musical, Fantasy

Country: UK, USA

Directed By: Jacques Demy

Written By: Jacques Demy, Andrew Birkin

Starring: John Hurt, Donald Pleasence, Roy Kinnear, Jack Wild, Diana Dors, Donovan

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