Plot Summary

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…

Movie Details

Original Title
Lotte Reiniger – Hommage an die Erfinderin des Silhouetten Films
Status
released
Original Language
en

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Production Companies

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Diorama Film