Helmut Käutner Movies

The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military...

Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by...

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

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...

Two barge skippers fall in love with the same woman.

A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but...

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

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

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her,...

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological...

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

In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages...

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

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...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.