Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

Sleeping Beauty

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...