Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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

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

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

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.

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.