Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

Silhouette film illustrating the growth of wheeled traffic from the earliest tim es to the modern car.

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