Helmut Käutner Movies

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

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

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.

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

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...

Fun on a boat.

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....

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

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

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...

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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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...

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