Lotte Reiniger Movies

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...

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

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

The confrontation between two women - a choreographer of a successful troupe and a prima ballerina. Stung by the news of her upcoming dismissal, the...

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...

Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter,...

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

A silhouette animation based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel & Gretel".

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf.

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

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