Helmut Käutner
Also Known As: Хельмут Койтнер
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: March 25, 1908
Age: 117 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 20, 1980
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Port of Freedom
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-12-15
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Epilogue
Overview: 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".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-09-28
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The Zurich Engagement
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-04-16
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Die Frau in Weiß
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-05-15
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Monpti
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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Bend Sinister
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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Zu jung für die Liebe?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-03-24
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The Original Sin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-11-23
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Hauser's Memory
Overview: 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.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-24
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Der trojanische Sessel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-10-06
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Van der Valk and the Rich
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-12-26
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Die gefälschte Göttin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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Temptation in the Summer Wind
Overview: Fun on a boat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-12-28
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Feinde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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Der Teufel und der liebe Gott
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Valentin Katajews chirurgische Eingriffe in das Seelenleben des Dr. Igor Igorowitsch
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-23
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Wir Kellerkinder
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Genres: War Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Girl from Flanders
Overview: A love story between a German soldier and a young Flemish woman amidst World War I.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-02-16
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Cruiser Emden
Overview: Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Overview: 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!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Wir machen Musik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-09-10
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Verbotenes Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-01-15
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The Last Bridge
Overview: A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Yugoslav partisan during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-11
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Romance in a Minor Key
Overview: A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-06-25
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Der Schinderhannes
Overview: 1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and large landowners who exploit poor farmers in the Hunsrück region during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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In Those Days
Overview: A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-06-13
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