Lotte Reiniger Movies

Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.

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...

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

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...

A king and queen celebrate their daughter’s birth, but a forgotten fairy curses her to die by pricking her finger on a spindle. Another fairy...

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like...

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,...

A wicked giant attempts to steal all of the instruments from a small town.

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.

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.

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

Silhouette film based on Perrault's fairy tale.

Lotte Reiniger returns to the character of Prince Achmed for this “Arabian Nights”–inspired fantasy in which our hero takes off on...

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

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

Silhouette animated film based on the novella "The Mohock and the Unicorn" by E. W. White. This is the original german version by Lotte Reiniger