Helmut Käutner Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more...

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 "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare...

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

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

Fun on a boat.

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...

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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

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....