Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

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

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

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

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

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

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...

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

After the grey city rain has turned to snow, we find ourselves together with a silhouette figure in the snow-covered mountains. Under the motto "Get...

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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...

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