Lotte Reiniger Movies

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...

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

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...

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

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

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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...

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.

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf.

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...

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

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