Lotte Reiniger Movies

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes...

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...

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf.

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.

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

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...

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

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin"...

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.