Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and...

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...

Film shows the story of Papageno (the one from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute"), who wants a mate, yet has difficulties getting one.

Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922.

Based on Mozart’s The Seraglio.

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

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.

Pioneer of silhouette animation, Lotte Reiniger, uses this technique in a retelling of the Greek legend in which the sculptor, Pygmalion, brings a...

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

The original nativity story animated silent film by Lotte Reiniger.

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

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

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

Prince Achmed goes for a ride on a flying horse.

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

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

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