Lotte Reiniger Movies

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends...

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

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,...

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

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

Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922.

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

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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...

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,...

Lotte Reiniger applies her charming cutout animation technique to this early advertisement for the Nivea skin care company.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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...

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