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...

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,...

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

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

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

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

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

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

On his way inland, Dr. Dolittle and his animals encounter a nasty surprise. Natives capture them and hold them under lock and key.

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

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

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