Lotte Reiniger Movies

Ping Pong receives a bottle of alcohol as a gift from the Emperor. When he gets drunk and chokes on a fish bone, no one in the city wants to take...

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

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

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.

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...

Sleeping Beauty

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...

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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

The confrontation between two women - a choreographer of a successful troupe and a prima ballerina. Stung by the news of her upcoming dismissal, the...

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

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

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.