Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette FilmMovie
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…
About Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film
Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film is a 2001 documentary movie directed by Katja Raganelli.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 1m, production credits from Germany, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Lotte Reiniger. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
