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‘A Performance Desperately in Need of an Audience’ followed by ‘The Gallant Little Tailor’
Join us for three fun-filled days of cinema, music and live performances at the Ajyal Stage!
An enchanting retelling of a Brothers Grimm classic about a clever little tailor who outwits two giants.
In front of a fortified city, protected by a wall and watchtowers, we join the Gallant Little Tailor. Annoyed by a swarm of pesky flies, our hero swats and kills all seven of them in one stroke. Proud of himself, he inscribes his achievement onto his belt. But little does he know that his boast will soon be misunderstood with calamitous consequences in this enchanting retelling of a Brothers Grimm classic

Credits

Director
Lotte Reiniger
Production Company
Primrose Productions
Sales Company
BFI
Music
Freddie Phillips
Cast
Narrator: Leo Bieber

About the Director

Lotte Reiniger
Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin in 1899. Fascinated from an early age by the Asian arts of silhouette puppetry, and later by the films of the great French filmmaker Georges Méliès, Reiniger became a pioneer of silhouette animation in the cinema. Over the course of her career, she made more than 40 films, with the best-known being ‘The Adventures of Prince Achmed’ and ‘Papageno’ (1935). She was a