Lotte Reiniger Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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...

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

Sleeping Beauty

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

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

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

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

A king demands butter for his royal slice of bread.

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