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...

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

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,...

On his way inland, Dr. Dolittle and his animals encounter a nasty surprise. Natives capture them and hold them under lock and key.

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

Chronicles the life and work of animator Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

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

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...

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...

Dr. Dolittle has arrived in the land of monkeys, where gorillas, orangutans, baboons and spiders await medical attention. But how can one do it...

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

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.

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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