A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. Read More »
Tag Archives: Helmut Käutner
Under the Bridges AKA Unter den Brücken (1945) Helmut Käutner, Hannelore Schroth, Carl Raddatz, Gustav Knuth
“Under the Bridges”, made in the last year of the Third Reich, proves that artistic Read More »
Great Freedom No. 7 AKA Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7 (1944) Helmut Käutner, Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Söhnker
The film tells the story of the blond “singing sailor” Hannes Kröger who works Read More »
The Devil’s General AKA Des Teufels General (1955) Helmut Käutner, Curd Jürgens, Marianne Koch, Viktor de Kowa
1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Read More »
Love from Paris AKA Monpti (1957) Helmut Käutner, Romy Schneider, Horst Buchholz, Mara Lane
A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Hauser’s Memory (1970) Boris Sagal, David McCallum, Susan Strasberg, Helmut Käutner
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain Read More »
Operation Caviar AKA Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein (1961) Géza von Radványi, Helmut Käutner, Georg Marischka, O.W. Fischer, Eva Bartok, Senta Berger
Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent Read More »
The Last Bridge AKA Die letzte Brücke (1954) Helmut Käutner, Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II. Read More »
Epilogue AKA Epilog: Das Geheimnis der Orplid (1950) Helmut Käutner, Horst Caspar, Bettina Moissi, O.E. Hasse
The journalist Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. Read More »
Portrait of an Unknown Woman AKA Bildnis einer Unbekannten (1954) Helmut Käutner, Ruth Leuwerik, O.W. Fischer, Erich Schellow
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. Read More »
Mad Emperor: Ludwig II AKA Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) Helmut Käutner, O.W. Fischer, Marianne Koch, Paul Bildt
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is frustrated, having to accept parliament’s will to join Bismarck, rather he his cultured Habsburg friends, in wars. Read More »
Karl May (1974) Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. Read More »
The Original Sin (1948) Helmut Käutner, Bobby Todd, Bettina Moissi, Joana Maria Gorvin
Adam happens to be married to someone else when he falls in love with his secretary Eve. Read More »
The Affairs of Julie (1957) Helmut Käutner, Liselotte Pulver, Paul Hubschmid, Bernhard Wicki
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. Read More »
The Restless Years (1958) Helmut Käutner, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Teresa Wright
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother. Read More »