Lotte Reiniger Movies

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.

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

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

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

Zehn Minuten Mozart was Reiniger's first attempt at merging silhouette animation with music.

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...

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

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

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 illustrating the growth of wheeled traffic from the earliest tim es to the modern car.

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.

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

Sleeping Beauty