Der Fliegende Koffer (The Flying Suitcase) is another lovely Lotte Reiniger papercut animation, telling the fairy tale story of a princess imprisoned by her father in a tower to prevent a prophesied curse, only for her imprisonment to be the cause of that curse (this is why time travel is bad).
Anyway, the moral of the story is never imprison your daughter in a tower.
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Notes
1. I watched this on Blu-ray (it’s an extra on the Adventures Of Prince Ahmed video).
2. But got the images from this version on youtube.
3. The disc version is music-less, if that makes any difference.
4. But I think I preferred it that way.
5. Another Lotte Reiniger film, Das Ornament des verliebten Herzens, was the very first thing I ever reviewed on here.
6. Which is nice.
7. I would have reviewed more if I could find any trace of the ones she’s supposed to have made in 1920
8. But I couldn’t, unfortunately.
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Film Information
Title: Der Fliegende Koffer/The Flying Coffer/The Flying Suitcase
Director: Lotte Reiniger
Year: 1921
Duration: 8 minutes
Watch: youtube