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Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

2001 1 hour 1 minute
70/100

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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…

Released

20th November 2001

24 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 1 minute

Finishes at 12:01pm

Ratings and awards

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    7/10

  • TMDb Logo

    60%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    70%

Directed by

Katja Raganelli

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Written by

Katja Raganelli

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