Lotte Reiniger Filmes

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

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...

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

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

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”.

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

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

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

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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