Ferdinand Diehl

When a young girl finds out that, due to her existence, her seven brothers are struck by a curse and have to live their lives as ravens, she goes out in a quest to find them. Considered to be the first German feature length stop motion film.

Mecki Introduces Himself - This stop motion puppet film explains the making of animated shorts featuring the character Mecki.

A Silver Bear winning short animation.

Elaborately designed puppet animation film about the Brothers Grimm's "Fairy Tale of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was"

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The film is an example of films from the Nazi era that focused on alpine sports and often used them for propaganda purposes.

Stop-motion animated short with experimental sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Stop-motion version of the Grimm fairy tale from the Nazi era.

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A early puppet animation by Ferdinand Diehl

Kasperle Larifari travels to a distant island in search of a magic flower.

At midnight, two elves help a pair of shoemakers in distress by making shoes. They make it a condition that they are not watched. When the cobblers do it anyway and then send them the matching clothes, they stop working but continue to help the cobblers.

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A German explorer sails in his U-boat, Nautilus, all the way to the North Pole.

Stop-motion animated short, with sound by Rudolf Pfenninger.

Story loosely based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp".

A mouse from the city invites a country mouse to the cellar where it lives to show how much food they have there. But soon the country mouse realizes that there is also a vicious cat sneaking around in this cellar. The lesson of the story: Wealth doesn't mean that you live without worries.

Film adaptation of the folk tale "The Hare and the Hedgehog": A slow but shrewd hedgehog challenges an equally nimble and snooty hare to a race in a field [filmportal].

A German stop-motion adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.