Lotte Reiniger Movies

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

Silhouette animation prepared to be shown during a scene change of the Fritz Kreisler operetta "Sissi".

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

One of Lotte Reiniger's very last animated silhouette films, issued both in French and English versions.

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

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

Sleeping Beauty

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.

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

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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