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Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film

Name: Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film
Released: 2001-11-21
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jenny Evans, 洛特·雷妮格, David Kehoe, Louis Hagen, Walter Schobert

Ratings: IMDB 7.2 / TMDB

Director: Katja Raganelli
Cast: Jenny Evans, 洛特·雷妮格, David Kehoe, Louis Hagen, Walter Schobert, Alfred Happ, Hartmut W Redott E, 洛特·雷妮格 Lotte Reiniger
Region: Germany
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Released: 2001-11-21(美国)
Runtime: 60 min
Original language: English
Release dates: United States 2001-11-20
Keywords: woman director

Overview

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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