Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Dolittle has arrived in the land of monkeys, where gorillas, orangutans, baboons and spiders await medical attention. But how can one do it...

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.

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

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.

Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter,...

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

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.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

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...