Biography
Louis Hagen was a German-British film producer and author. Born in Potsdam, he was the son of a Berlin banker who financed Lotte Reiniger’s early work. As a child he assisted with silhouette cutting on her first feature, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), on which he is credited as producer.
Hagen emigrated to Britain in 1936. After wartime service he founded Primrose Film Productions in London and produced more than twenty silhouette-animated shorts with Reiniger during the 1950s, including adaptations of fairy tales such as The Gallant Little Taylor (1954) and Jack and the Beanstalk (1955). He also wrote books on wartime experiences and German history.
