Lotte Reiniger Movies

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends...

This short documentary looks at the animated art of Lotte Reiniger. We are taken through a demonstration by Lotte herself on the way she cut out,...

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

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

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

The Parable of the Lost/ Prodigal Son as told by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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...

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is...

In a house on the coast, Doktor Dolittle lives with a monkey, a little dog, a pig, a crocodile, a duck and a parrot. He knows the language of...

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

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

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

BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...