Directed by Jacques Demy • 1972 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Donovan, Diana Dors, Donald Pleasence

The classic story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to life courtesy of French New Wave magician Jacques Demy. Psych-folk legend Donovan plays the titular, magic-flute-playing troubadour, who encounters greed and corruption when he arrives in a fourteenth-century German town in the grip of the Black Plague. Demy’s ever-imaginative costumes and production design and a surprising cast that includes John Hurt, Donald Pleasence, and Diana Dors provide some of the many pleasures in this offbeat blend of dark-tinged fairy tale, medieval pageantry, and flower-child bohemianism.