Lotte Reiniger Movies

A musical Grasshopper continues to play his violin while the Ant works hard to prepare for the winter. Later as winter arrives Grasshopper realizes...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin"...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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