Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out,...

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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...

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

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

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

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”.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.