Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film poster

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

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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…

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical20 Nov 2001
  • GermanyDE

    • Premiere31 Dec 1997
  • NetherlandsNL

    • PremiereInternational Film Festival Rotterdam2 Feb 2025

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Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film was released on 20 November 2001.

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