Helmut Käutner Movies

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

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

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...

Story of the Kreuzer (cruiser) Emden and his men during WWI, garnished with a love Story, rivalry and heroism.

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about...

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 is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological...

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

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

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he...

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.

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

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.

'The Rest Is Silence, a German-made attempt to update Shakespeare, is one of the best and least self-conscious of this minor genre. As indicated by...