Helmut Käutner
Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany. Käutner is relatively unknown outside of Germany, although he is considered one of the best filmmakers in German film history. He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations. He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Käutner started out as a director in the Nazi era, but his films remained largely free of Nationalsocialist propaganda. One of his early successes was Romanze in Moll (1943), an adaptation of Guy du Maupassant’s short story “Les Bijoux". Other remarkable films were Große Freiheit Nr. 7 and Under the Bridges. His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated ...
Filmography
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Director credits
0/43- OROrnifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel
The Fire Tongs Bowl
Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas
Diary of a Serial Killer
Robin Hood, der edle Räuber- DIDie Flasche
Lausbubengeschichten
The House in Montevideo
Redhead
This Time it Must Be Caviar
Operation Caviar
Black Gravel
The Dream of Lieschen Mueller
A Glass of Water
Without Trumpet or Drum
The Rest Is Silence
A Stranger in My Arms
Der Schinderhannes
The Restless Years
Monpti
The Zurich Engagement
The Captain from Kopenick
The Girl from Flanders
Sky Without Stars
The Devil's General
Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
The Last Bridge
Captain Bay-Bay
White Shadows
Epilogue
Royal Children
The Original Sin
In Those Days
Under the Bridges
Port of Freedom
Romance in a Minor Key
Anushka
Wir machen Musik
Goodbye, Franziska
Clothes Make the Man
Frau nach Maß
Kitty and the World Conference
