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Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner

1908-03-25

Düsseldorf, Germany

DIRECTING

Biography

Helmut Käutner (born 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Italy) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany.

Best known for:

Scene of the Crime

The Captain from Kopenick

Derrick

The Devil's General

Port of Freedom

Monpti

Under the Bridges

The Zurich Engagement

The Last Bridge

Clothes Make the Man

In Those Days

Romance in a Minor Key

Sky Without Stars

Black Gravel

Lausbubengeschichten

Film Without Title

Der Schinderhannes

The Fair

The House in Montevideo

Redhead

Der Kommissar

Operation Caviar

Die Feuerzangenbowle

The Original Sin

Nights on the Road

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Filmography:

Cruiser Emden (1932)
APPEREAD AS:
Matrose der 'Emden'
Kitty and the World Conference (1939)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Clothes Make the Man (1940)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Goodbye, Franziska (1941)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
We Make Music (1942)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Anushka (1942)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Port of Freedom (1944)
APPEREAD AS:
Karl
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Under the Bridges (1946)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer

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In Those Days (1947)
APPEREAD AS:
Das Auto (voice)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Producer
The Original Sin (1948)
APPEREAD AS:
Prof. Petri
WORK AS:
Director, Producer, Writer
Film Without Title (1948)
WORK AS:
Writer, Producer
Königskinder (1950)
WORK AS:
Director
Nights on the Road (1952)
WORK AS:
Screenplay
Käpt'n Bay-Bay (1953)
WORK AS:
Director
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
The Devil's General (1955)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay

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Sky Without Stars (1955)
WORK AS:
Director, Novel, Writer
Ludwig II (1955)
WORK AS:
Director
Reaching for the Stars (1955)
WORK AS:
Writer
The Captain from Kopenick (1956)
5.9
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Goodbye, Francesca! (1957)
WORK AS:
Story
Monpti (1957)
APPEREAD AS:
Erzähler
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The Zurich Engagement (1957)
APPEREAD AS:
Reporter
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The Restless Years (1958)
WORK AS:
Director
A Stranger in My Arms (1959)
WORK AS:
Director
The Rest Is Silence (1959)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Producer
Without Trumpet or Drum (1959)
APPEREAD AS:
Königliche Hoheit
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Wir Kellerkinder (1960)
APPEREAD AS:
Chauffeur
The Fair (1960)
WORK AS:
Producer
A Glass of Water (1960)
WORK AS:
Director, Screenplay
Operation Caviar (1961)
WORK AS:
Director
This Time it Must Be Caviar (1961)
WORK AS:
Director
The Dream of Lieschen Müller (1961)
WORK AS:
Director
Black Gravel (1961)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Zu jung für die Liebe? (1961)
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Blendheim
WORK AS:
Director
Redhead (1962)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
The House in Montevideo (1963)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Lausbubengeschichten (1964)
WORK AS:
Director
The Canterville Ghost (1964)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Robin Hood, der edle Räuber (1966)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Ein Mann namens Harry Brent (1968)
APPEREAD AS:
Sir Gordon Towns
Bel Ami (1968)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Der Kommissar (1969)
APPEREAD AS:
Hugo Blasek
Diary of a Serial Killer (1969)
WORK AS:
Director
Scene of the Crime (1970)
4.7
APPEREAD AS:
Robert Kemm
Die Feuerzangenbowle (1970)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer
Hauser's Memory (1970)
APPEREAD AS:
Dr. Kramer
Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas (1970)
WORK AS:
Director
Die Frau in Weiß (1971)
APPEREAD AS:
Sir Frederic Fairlie
Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)
APPEREAD AS:
Canisius
Derrick (1974)
4.6
APPEREAD AS:
Paul Seibach, Duktus
WORK AS:
Director
Eichholz & Söhne (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Franz Schadow
Karl May (1977)
APPEREAD AS:
Karl May