Helmut Käutner Movies

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

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 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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

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

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

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

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...

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

Bank accountant Thomas Lieven is forced to work as a triple agent for the British, the French and the Nazis.

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...

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

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

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....

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