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.

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

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.

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

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

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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...

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

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

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes...

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...

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin"...

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