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The Flying Coffer

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Directed by Lotte Reiniger • 1922 • Germany

One of Lotte Reiniger’s first forays into the world of fairy tales tells the story of a poor young man who sets out to rescue a Chinese princess imprisoned by her father in the tower of a pagoda.

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