Lotte Reiniger Movies

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.

Silhouette film – a version of Offenbach’s opera, “La belle Helene”.

A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

The confrontation between two women - a choreographer of a successful troupe and a prima ballerina. Stung by the news of her upcoming dismissal, the...

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.

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

Silhouette animated film based on the novella "The Mohock and the Unicorn" by E. W. White. This is the original german version by Lotte Reiniger

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...

Ping Pong receives a bottle of alcohol as a gift from the Emperor. When he gets drunk and chokes on a fish bone, no one in the city wants to take...

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...

Silhouette animation prepared to be shown during a scene change of the Fritz Kreisler operetta "Sissi".

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

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

One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.