Lotte Reiniger Movies

Santa Claus threatens to go on strike, as a result of people posting mail too late!

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

A delightful animated appeal to help bringing in Scotland’s harvest, made by the legendary Lotte Reiniger.

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

Silhouette animation prepared to be shown during a scene change of the Fritz Kreisler operetta "Sissi".

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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...

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

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,...

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...

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

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

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

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