Lotte Reiniger Movies

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.

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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

Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.

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

It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like...

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

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

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

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

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...