The Adventures Of Prince Achmed (Les aventures du prince Ahmad) [Sub: Eng]

It may not be exactly new to perceive silhouette figures on the screen, but it is quite another matter as they are offered here.

Enchanting.

It impresses for its exquisite craftmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry.

The images, most of them gorgeously detailed silhouettes, are dazzling.

Beautiful and innovative -- age only adds to its brilliance and charm.

German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's ground-breaking, silent, animated fantasy feature used cut-out paper silhouettes to tell a tale that combines pieces of several stories from The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights.

Beautiful as it all is, considerable dedication is required to sit through an hour of monotone, flat silhouette animation. It's rewarding -- but the reward is hard earned.

Even with the knowledge that the figures are made from simple pieces of cards and tricks of light, there is a magical splendour to her animations.

More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed deserves to be a landmark. And it would be if it were better known.

That The Adventures of Prince Achmed still survives is a work of wonder equivalent to any rare treasure which Aladdin could rub out of his lamp.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a vital part of film history.