Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

Overview

It’s quite telling that Katja Raganelli chose the animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger as her gateway figure into German cinema’s past. Like Alice Guy-Blaché, she was prolific, and worked in all kinds of formats, including commercials and animated interludes for fiction features. More than Guy-Blaché, though, she was an inventor of forms and techniques whose genius was admired by the likes of Bertolt Brecht. It says a lot about film history that Reiniger remains still a specialists’ darling…

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 20, 2001

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, German

Countries

Germany

Production

BR,Diorama Film

Cast

Lotte Reiniger

Director

Katja Raganelli

Writer

Katja Raganelli

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0471239