The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed)

It’s amazing how far paper and scissors can go when Disney is not around.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.*** Blasphemously forgotten and ignored, Reiniger's visual delight of mythical creatures, magic, romance, exotic lands and wonderful tales remains as a longstanding legend in international celluloid. This is my second…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

I was frustrated about rating this film. Here are all the things I loved about it: *1st feature length animated film (that still exists) *Stunningly animated in a shadow puppet style created by the writer/director--who was a woman! *The "savior" of the film is a…

StormofCuteness

Fantastical in every sense of the word, this movie weaponizes silhouettes and it’s breathtakingly beautiful.  This totally mesmerized me and I loved it.

Ian West

You know that feeling when you witness something timelessly beautiful, yet shrouded in mystery, a piece of art that seems to reach out and captivate you. This silent film casts a hypnotic spell; its style, its colors, its forms are so vivid and alive that it felt as though…

wersku

entertained in an era of cgi creations as grand and mechanical as the statue of liberty holding up captain america’s shield (lol watched the new spider-man last night), the adventures of prince achmed’s handmade creatures offer an awestruck enchantment into the magic of the…

Christina

The colors. The compositions. The action!!! This is a remarkable feat of animation and one of the most visually interesting animated films of all time. The story is not it’s best component, even though the film has the power to easily hook the viewer in to what is going on…

dmartsfilm

"Prince Achmed was young and brave and not afraid of any adventure." Though clarity and pace occasionally waver, even for the admittedly brief runtime, Lotte Reiniger's skill does not. The Adventures of Prince Achmed is pure cinematic magic, a journey where one feels the…

Ryne Walley

The oldest surviving animated movie ever is also one of the most gorgeous pieces of animation of all time. I mean, we're talking about the oldest full-lenght animated feature you can watch rigth now, and it looks a million times better than some animated movies realeased…

Felipe F.