Lotte Reiniger Movies

"The Frog Prince" was one of several adaptations of Brothers Grimm fairytales that Lotte Reiniger made in London between 1953 and 1955: others...

Cinderella lived with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. They were very mean to Cinderella, making her work all day cleaning, sewing, and...

A princess's ball falls into a well and is rescued by a frog but she has to make a promise before he gives it back.

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

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

Because Dummling has a good heart, fate leads him to a princess waiting for rescue.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like...

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...

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

Sleeping Beauty

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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

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