Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

In a house on the coast, Doktor Dolittle lives with a monkey, a little dog, a pig, a crocodile, a duck and a parrot. He knows the language of...

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

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

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 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.

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

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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

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

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

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