The Pied Piper
- Year:
- 1986
- 53 min
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For years the Pied Piper
has gone from town to town
in countless guises, his legend
having no beginning nor end...
Our particular story takes place
over one day, in Prague
on New Year's Eve, perhaps
just so it could become a film.
Presents
a film shot in 24 hours
THE PIED PIPER:
We're having a wedding!
Open up, councilors!
Well, what'll it be?
The bride is near term and
I'm not going to reconsider.
Agnes, pitch the garland.
It's not in these days.
- It's not in!
- Well? Open up!
So what?
This bride is mine even
without your stamp of approval.
Stamp your affluent butts! We'll
take our business elsewhere.
I want to get married
this year, not the next.
Tomorrow, tomorrow,
whether craven or brave,
tomorrow I'll be
stretched out in my grave.
Alms for the poor.
Alms, kind sir,
for me and my bride.
We're great sinners.
Here.
You're so generous
on this last day of the year.
You deserve a fat reward
for your sins, my good man.
Indeed, the whole
town will soon be rewarded.
When I toll the midnight bells
you'll all be mine, my darlings.
And I'll create you in my image.
You're mine and nobody's
going to take you from me.
Anything else?
Who are you?
Here. Do you still care?
It doesn't matter,
my good people, let's carry on.
Come, Agnes.
Agnes, come on!
Lt'll be the Devil's work
if we don't get married.
Come on, let's go!
Let's go!
Agnes, come here!
Sexton! Agnes... Sexton!
We'd like you to marry us.
We want to marry.
We're all set:
We've gotwitnesses, the bride, the groom.
Right, I know:
Dear Agnes, do you take
Kristian as your husband
and to protect him? Yes.
Dear Kristian, do you
take Agnes as your wife?
Yes.
Got it?
You can marry us now.
What? What are you staring at?
Will you marry us?
Hey, take this and marry us.
Hey...
Take this!
I want you
to keep living in sin.
Come on. Let's get out of here.
- Let's go!
- What a weirdo.
- Come on!
- Move it!
Anything else, my child?
I hope you haven't sinned.
Where's Agnes?
I know I'm living in sin, but I
don't want to confess anything.
I believe that at midnight some
of my innocence will return.
- Glad to hear it, child.
- I wait for it as for salvation.
When I toll the midnight bells
I'll free the town of its guilt.
And you'll sin in my name.
Freely, with even greater
simplicity and love.
And you'll see!
You'll like it.
What were you looking for?
Love.
Love?
It's too damn late, eh?
- Hey, Mr. Musician, join us.
- Come join us!
- What if he's not a musician?
- He's not a musician!
- But he's got such a nice pipe.
- A shepherd's pipe!
I bet he can't play it.
Maybe it's magic.
Maybe it's deadly.
I am here.
I'll rid the town
of filth and rats.
I'll clean it up. Who'll pay me?
I'll pay you!
But you have to clean it all;
Not one sinful soul may remain.
- That's a tough task.
- You know my pipe? - Yes.
Of course,
your pipe, Pied Piper.
- So you know its power.
- Yes, I like power...
I love pernicious things.
You've come too late, Piper.
You'll never purify
this town of sin by midnight.
Ridding it
of rats is no longer enough.
Then I'll exterminate
the entire town.
My pipe
cannot harm innocence anyway.
Don't abuse
the gift that was given you.
I won't let you to ruin my work
when it's so near completion.
I'll silence your pipe.
I've never
blown with all my might.
You needn't. Maybe you're
destined for something greater.
To love...
a woman. That's far greater.
- My heart's not made for loving.
- The heart is an obstruction.
Okay then,
purify the town by midnight.
If you fail you lose your power.
And if I succeed?
I pay you and get out of your
way. I'll leave town. Deal?
Deal?
Okay, it's a deal.
Atta boy.
Atta boy, Piper.
Stick to our strengths.
You know how to blow,
and I do the tempting.
When I toll the bells
we'll see who's stronger.
I thought it over. I'd like
you to hear my confession.
Who are you?
No one.
Less than nothing.
The Pied Piper.
Pied Piper?
Plenty of rats here.
God knows from where.
At first they just gnaw a bit,
then they're bolder and bolder.
- What's your name?
Agnes.
- What do you have to confess?
- I'm like a delay-action mirror.
It's my fate to get things late.
I say everything too late;
I laugh and cry a day later.
But I know
how to wait patiently.
So I'm waiting for midnight.
But I'm the only one
who'll feel it a day late.
It seems
like I've known you forever.
Agnes?
Are you here?
I have to go, Piper.
Kristian is my bridegroom.
Agnes...
Piper... Enchanted...
Intoxicate the heart
beyond the grave...
I didn't confess...
Is your little soul at peace?
My sweet bride. My darling.
Alms, my good man,
for me and my bride.
We're great sinners.
For alms I'll tell you
what happens at midnight.
At midnight...
At midnight
the town becomes Hell!
Hey,
If you're seeking a bride,
take this.
But my bride is dead.
We're all cursed.
I lay awake last night
sleepless in bed,
But there's nothing here
I need to dread,
Just the rats I hunt
until they run red,
What's this cloud
that's crept in my head?
I know what it is to be dead.
I know all the world's pain,
Envy can't hurt me
nor a dirty name,
As feeling awakens
the Piper's life is vain,
I must be gone when
I've blown my song of fame.
Let me die
Love can't live
in the Piper's heart,
What does Fate want?
Will the pain ever go?
I should have scorned
that woman from the start.
On the horizon I see the end:
A red stain like blood,
and knights this way wend,
and that's no good.
Agnes?
Pathetic Piper!
Looking for your angel here?
You're wasting time.
Blow, and remember that
midnight means all or nothing.
Bride and groom, let's go!
Let's get drunk!
Ladies and gentlemen,
to the bride! Long may she live!
Long live this day!
Long live Agnes!
Long live Agnes!
Agnes!
Come on.
Join us.
Looking for me, handsome?
Got some time? Want love?
Plenty of time till midnight.
See, Piper?
A city full of rats and sin.
A golden surface
covering the filth within.
Hear that?
How they rejoice? They little
suspect that time is on my side.
What's the matter little girl?
Don't you like them?
My two very favorite sins:
Vice and lechery.
Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!
Crying, Agnes?
Here, I'll paint you some tears.
Piper?
Is it you?
I have to tell you something.
Agnes...
But now?
I had my pipe
and I exterminated rats.
Now I'm forgetting my calling.
Purifying
the town means killing.
Midnight cleans everyone, even
- Lf I tell you, you won't want me.
- None can save a lost soul.
I can decide
who lives and who dies.
But I don't want to.
Maybe I'll find you...
And maybe I'll lose everything.
There's only you.
There was Kristian.
But now I only think of you.
Agnes?
I want to dance with you.
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