Lotte Reiniger Movies

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...

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

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.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on...

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Silhouette animation prepared to be shown during a scene change of the Fritz Kreisler operetta "Sissi".

Lotte Reiniger's last film, following the adventures of two kingdoms through the overseeing eye of a destiny-knitting witch.

Silhouette film – a version of Offenbach’s opera, “La belle Helene”.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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