Helmut Käutner Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

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

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...

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...

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

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

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

Fun on a boat.

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

Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of...