Lotte Reiniger Filmes

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...

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

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

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.

Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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.

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

Zehn Minuten Mozart was Reiniger's first attempt at merging silhouette animation with music.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her...