Ferdinand Diehl Movies

A Silver Bear winning short animation.

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

A German explorer sails in his U-boat, Nautilus, all the way to the North Pole.

When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out...

A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers...

A German stop-motion adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

Kasperle Larifari travels to a distant island in search of a magic flower.

Stop-motion animated short, with sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Stop-motion version of the Grimm fairy tale from the Nazi era.

Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a...

A mouse from the city invites a country mouse to the cellar where it lives to show how much food they have there. But soon the country mouse realizes...

Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Story loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp".