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,...

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.

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

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

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty...

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

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

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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

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...

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

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....

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...

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.

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...