Lotte Reiniger Movies

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

Cinderella lived with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. They were very mean to Cinderella, making her work all day cleaning, sewing, and...

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.