Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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

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...

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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,...

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

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

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

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.