Lotte Reiniger Movies

Silhouette film – a version of Offenbach’s opera, “La belle Helene”.

Aladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter,...

The first film directed by influential German-born silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger is delightfully reminiscent of a Valentine’s Day card...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Snow White and Rose Red give shelter to a bear who reveals himself to be a prince under a spell cast by a wicked dwarf.

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

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.