MovieDocumentary

Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

Name: Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film
Director: Katja Raganelli
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2001-11-20
Duration: 61 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Lotte Reiniger

20011h 1m7.0Directed by Katja Raganelli

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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