Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner

Born: March 25, 1908
Died: April 20, 1980
in Düsseldorf, Germany
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.

Movies for Helmut Käutner...

Title: Eichholz & Söhne
Character: Franz Schadow
Released: December 12, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Karl May
Character: Karl May
Released: January 10, 1977
Type: TV
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Title: Das ist Ihr Leben
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: TV
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Feinde
Title: Feinde
Character: General a. D.
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Derrick
Character: Duktus
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Title: Derrick
Character: Paul Seibach
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Karl May
Title: Karl May
Character: Karl May
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.
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Van der Valk and the Rich
Title: Van der Valk and the Rich
Character: Canisius
Released: December 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. When he gets to know his woman, he is fascinated by the thought of running away with her.
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Temptation in the Summer Wind
Title: Temptation in the Summer Wind
Character: Professor
Released: December 28, 1972
Type: Movie
Fun on a boat.
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Der trojanische Sessel
Title: Der trojanische Sessel
Character: Paul Hoffmann
Released: October 6, 1971
Type: Movie
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Die gefälschte Göttin
Title: Die gefälschte Göttin
Character: Kapitän
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
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Die Frau in Weiß
Title: Die Frau in Weiß
Character: Sir Frederic Fairlie
Released: May 15, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Robert Kemm
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Hauser's Memory
Title: Hauser's Memory
Character: Dr. Kramer
Released: November 24, 1970
Type: Movie
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
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Bend Sinister
Title: Bend Sinister
Character: Adam Krug
Released: January 7, 1970
Type: Movie
In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages the idea of anyone being different from anyone else, and promotes the state as the prominent good in society.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Hugo Blasek
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Ein Mann namens Harry Brent
Character: Sir Gordon Towns
Released: January 15, 1968
Type: TV
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Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch
Title: Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch
Character: Valentin Katajew
Released: October 23, 1967
Type: Movie
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Der Teufel und der liebe Gott
Title: Der Teufel und der liebe Gott
Character: Erzbischof
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
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Verbotenes Land
Title: Verbotenes Land
Character: Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud
Released: January 15, 1967
Type: Movie
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Wir machen Musik
Title: Wir machen Musik
Character: Guest
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: Movie
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Title: Grimme-Preis-Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: Blick zurück im Film
Character: Self
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: TV
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Zu jung für die Liebe?
Title: Zu jung für die Liebe?
Character: Dr. Blendheim
Released: March 24, 1961
Type: Movie
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We Cellar Children
Title: We Cellar Children
Character: Chauffeur
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Title: Without Trumpet or Drum
Character: Königliche Hoheit
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
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Der Schinderhannes
Title: Der Schinderhannes
Released: December 17, 1958
Type: Movie
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Monpti
Title: Monpti
Character: Erzähler
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but tragedy ensues when the truth behind the girl is revealed.
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The Zurich Engagement
Title: The Zurich Engagement
Character: Reporter
Released: April 16, 1957
Type: Movie
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. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...
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The Girl from Flanders
Title: The Girl from Flanders
Released: February 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
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The Last Bridge
Title: The Last Bridge
Released: February 11, 1954
Type: Movie
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Epilogue
Title: Epilogue
Released: September 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man".
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The Original Sin
Title: The Original Sin
Character: Prof. Petri
Released: November 23, 1948
Type: Movie
An apple juice producer can't decide between his wife and his secretary and tries to commit suicide. Being committed to psychiatry, he falls asleep and dreams of adventures as Adam and Eve in heaven and hell.
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
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Port of Freedom
Title: Port of Freedom
Character: Karl
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care of his ex-girlfriend Gisa. Taking Gisa to Hamburg to live with him, Hannes quickly falls in love with her, but soon has to face Gisa's affection for another man, Willem.
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Romance in a Minor Key
Title: Romance in a Minor Key
Released: June 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
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Cruiser Emden
Title: Cruiser Emden
Character: Matrose der 'Emden'
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.