BFI Screenonline: Caliph Stork, The (1954)

Caliph Stork, The (1954)

Courtesy of Primrose Productions


35mm, black and white, 10 mins

Director	Lotte Reiniger
Production Company	Primrose Productions
Production Team	Carl Koch, Louis Hagen, Vivian Milroy
Music	Freddie Phillips

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A young caliph is transformed into a stork by his wicked uncle.

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With this film, based on a tale by Wilhelm Hauff, Lotte Reiniger enters the world of the Arabian Nights, creating opulent backgrounds with marvellous domes, rooftops and minarets, and joins the magic of the Far East with an amusing tale.

Christel Strobel

*This film is included in the BFI DVD compilation Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films.

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	Complete film (10:15)

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	Reiniger, Lotte (1899-1981)