Lotte Reiniger Movies

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

Cinderella lived with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. They were very mean to Cinderella, making her work all day cleaning, sewing, and...

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

Lotte Reiniger's earliest preserved fairytale film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

A silhouette animation based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel".

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

Silhouette film illustrating the growth of wheeled traffic from the earliest tim es to the modern car.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Silhouette fairy tale film about a man who wins his true love with the help of the "wee folk".

Lotte that Silhouette Girl is a short animated documentary about the fantastic and creative life of film pioneer Lotte Reiniger, who was a rockstar...

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card...

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out,...

An animated short film based on the famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm about the enterprising cat in boots and a feather hat, who manages to...

Because Dummling has a good heart, fate leads him to a princess waiting for rescue.

A king and queen celebrate their daughter’s birth, but a forgotten fairy curses her to die by pricking her finger on a spindle. Another fairy...

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople...

After the grey city rain has turned to snow, we find ourselves together with a silhouette figure in the snow-covered mountains. Under the motto "Get...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

"The Frog Prince" was one of several adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairytales that Lotte Reiniger made in London between 1953 and 1955: others...