Lotte Reiniger Movies

Silhouette film. Based on Bizet’s opera “Carmen”.

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...

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

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

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

Silhouette fairy tale film about a man who wins his true love with the help of the "wee folk".

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

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...

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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.

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

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

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

Among Lotte Reiniger's commissioned pieces are several advertising films for the Julius Pinschewer agency, including: "Das Geheimnis der Marquisin"...

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...

Portrait of the pioneer of animation films Lotte Reiniger.

Lotte that Silhouette Girl is a short animated documentary about the fantastic and creative life of film pioneer Lotte Reiniger, who was a rockstar...