Cinderella

Name: Cinderella
Director: Lotte Reiniger
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Released: 1922

1922 Animation Fantasy Directed by Lotte Reiniger

About Cinderella

Lotte Reiniger tells the Grimms' Aschenputtel in silhouette. Cinderella is mistreated at home, goes to the ball, and is known by the slipper. No player is named. The German title on the Archive copy is Aschenputtel.

Cast & crew

Lotte Reiniger Director

More about Cinderella

Reiniger directed the silhouette short in the Weimar Republic. No running time is on the Wikidata record. A copy is on the Internet Archive.

Themes

A mistreated girl
A ball
A slipper
Cinderella
Aschenputtel
Lotte Reiniger
silhouette
Grimm

Preservation

A copy is on the Internet Archive.

Notes

The source is the Grimm tale, not Perrault's wording.
The Internet Archive identifier is silent-aschenputtel-aka-cinderella.
No voice or actor is billed.

Scenes

The silhouette girl leaves for the ball and is later matched to the slipper.

Influenced by

The Grimms' Aschenputtel

Also available

Internet Archive (silent-aschenputtel-aka-cinderella)