Lotte Reiniger was one of the twentieth century’s major animation artists, pioneering a distinctive style of black and white silhouette animation in her interpretations of classic myths and fairy tales. Reiniger began her career in Germany, making The Adventures of Prince Achmed, one of the first and most ingenious full-length animated films in the history of cinema. After the war, she moved to Britain with her husband Carl Koch and made short films for the GPO and later, in collaboration with Primrose Productions, an extensive series of famous fairy tale short films. This is a DVD collection of her work.
A story about how it is sometimes very easy to make a bad decision, but very difficult to make up fo...
About Prince Leopold, who is not independent due to the poor upbringing of his royal parents. He mak...

Princess Terezka was a girl like a pod until the moment when Mrs. Madam took over her upbringing. Th...

The film is a delightful tale of a spoiled wedding between child's toys which shows Starewicz's typi...
In the books of collectors of Slovak folk tales we can find a considerable number of stories about h...
The beautiful Shahrazad told many stories to the ruler during the 1000 and 1 Nights, in order to sav...

Sally, a dressy little girl, receives a lesson from a sorcerer about lying and happiness.

The story of Aladin is one of the most beautiful and well known fairy tales from "the Arabian nights...

Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, anot...

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three...

An animated short based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale about a poor young girl with a burning des...

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eig...
Fantasy based on a script by Natalia Dobrovolskaya.

Three children, holidaying in a small Cornish fishing village, become intrigued by the locals' tales...

The little tooth trolls Karius and Baktus tries to persuade Jens not to brush his teeth, and their p...

Presented in the form of a feverish love dream, 1001 Nights is the first and only installment of the...

Klaus lives with his two brothers Kunz and Franz in a little village. Together, they ply their trade...

Soviet cartoon adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale.