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Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

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Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

6.0

1h 1m

2001

Synopsis

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…

Director

Katja Raganelli

Documentary

woman director

Cast & Crew

Lotte Reiniger

Lotte Reiniger

as Herself (archive footage)

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