A poor 22 y.o. Hungarian man who’s recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 y.o. Parisian girl. Read More »
Tag Archives: Helmut Käutner
The Devil’s General / Des Teufels General (1955)
1941, the Third Reich seems to be winning the war. Luftwaffe (air force) general Read More »
Great Freedom No. 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 »
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 Captain from Köpenick / Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956) Helmut Käutner, Heinz Rühmann, Martin Held, Hannelore Schroth
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is released after being jailed for 15 years. Read More »
Under the Bridges / 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 »
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 / 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 / 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 / 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 »