Helmut Käutner Movies

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

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

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.

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

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

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...

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

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...

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

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....

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...

A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working...

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a...