Helmut Käutner
Helmut Käutner 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.
His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.Selected filmography
Director
Feature Films
- Kitty and the World Conference
- Woman Made to Measure
- Clothes Make the Man
- Goodbye, Franziska
- Anuschka
- We Make Music
- Romance in a Minor Key
- Große Freiheit Nr. 7
- Under the Bridges
- In Those Days
- The Original Sin
- Royal Children
- The Orplid Mystery
- White Shadows
- Captain Bay-Bay
- The Last Bridge
- Portrait of an Unknown Woman
- '
- Des Teufels General
- Sky Without Stars
- The Girl from Flanders
- The Captain from Köpenick
- The Zurich Engagement
- Love from Paris
- The Restless Years
- Der Schinderhannes
- A Stranger in My Arms
- The Rest Is Silence
- The Goose of Sedan
- A Glass of Water
- Black Gravel
- The Dream of Lieschen Mueller
- Redhead
- The House in Montevideo
- '
- Die Feuerzangenbowle
Television
- Das Gespenst von Canterville —
- Romulus der Große —
- Die Flasche —
- Robin Hood, der edle Räuber —
- Leben wie die Fürsten —
- Die spanische Puppe —
- Stella —
- Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch —
- Bel Ami —
- Tagebuch eines Frauenmörders —
- —
- Einladung ins Schloß oder Die Kunst das Spiel zu spielen —
- Der Kommissar: Anonymer Anruf
- Die seltsamen Abenteuer des geheimen Kanzleisekretärs Tusmann —
- Ornifle oder Der erzürnte Himmel —
- Die preußische Heirat —
- Derrick: Stiftungsfest
- Margarete in Aix —
- Mulligans Rückkehr —
Screenwriter
- Wibbel the Tailor
- Film ohne Titel
- Nights on the Road
Actor
- Cruiser Emden, as Seaman
- A Far Country, as Sigmund Freud
- The Devil and the Good Lord, as Archbishop
- ', as Sir Gordon Towns
- ', as Dr. Brenner
- Bend Sinister, as Adam Krug
- Der Kommissar: Messer im Rücken, as Hugo Blasek
- Hauser's Memory, as Dr. Kramer
- ', as Sir Frederic Fairlie
- Tatort: , as Professor Kemm
- Temptation in the Summer Wind, as Professor Bomhard
- ', as Canisius
- Karl May, as Karl May
- Derrick: Nur Aufregungen für Rohn, as Paul Seibach
- Derrick: Auf eigene Faust, as Duktus
Literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – Unter den Brücken. 1944/45. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007;
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen. 1947. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007;
