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…
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Lotte Reiniger
Crew: Katja Raganelli (Director), Katja Raganelli (Writer), Konrad Wickler (Cinematography), Camilla Bernetti (Editor)
Country: Germany
Language: English, Deutsch
Studio: BR, Diorama Film
Runtime: 61 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Nov 20, 2001
IMDb: 5
Keywords:woman director
