Helmut Käutner Movies

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her,...

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly...

A poor Hungarian artist falls in love with a wealthy mysterious Parisian girl.

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

This ethereal, three-hour biopic starring Helmut Käutner as the writer Karl May interprets «a German hero's life» and thereby paints...

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to...

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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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....

An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty...

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...

A young actress in love ensnares the director she admires by successfully playing the role of his ideal woman—the homemaker.

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....