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Papageno
Papageno
7.5
/10
153 Ratings

PAPAGENO

Directed by Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935
Short, Animation, Fantasy, Musical

Synopsis

A silhouette fantasy based on themes from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Papageno wants a mate, but he has difficulties finding one.

Synopsis

A silhouette fantasy based on themes from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Papageno wants a mate, but he has difficulties finding one.

Our take

Created in Germany before the Berlin-born animation pioneer fled to escape the Nazis, Papageno is one of Lotte Reiniger’s opera-based shorts, matching the magic of Mozart to the sensory shadow play of the silhouette film. Renoir once described her work as the “visual expression of Mozart’s music.”