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Das Geheimnis der Marquise

Das Geheimnis der Marquise

Lotte Reiniger | Germany | 1922 | 2' |

| IFFR 2025

A paper cut-out animation commercial for the magical powers of Nivea soap. Behold! Her skin is white as snow / And now my heart is all aglow. A collaboration with Julius Pinschewer, Germany’s original maestro of cinema advertisements.

– Olaf Möller

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