(Lotte Reiniger – Hommage an die Erfinderin des Silhouetten Films)

Content: 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…

Countries:

Germany

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

61 minutes

Year:

2001

Directors:

Katja Raganelli

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Production companies:

BR,

Diorama Film

Actors:

Herself (archive footage)

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