Lotte Reiniger Filmes

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

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...

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Lotte Reiniger's earliest preserved fairytale film based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her...

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.

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

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

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