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    Helmut Käutner

    German film director

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  1. Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He entered the film industry at the end of the Weimar Republic and released his first films as a director in Nazi Germany.

  2. Helmut Käutner war ein deutscher Regisseur, Schauspieler und Kabarettist. Er war einer der einflussreichsten Filmregisseure des deutschen Nachkriegskinos und wurde durch seine anspruchsvollen Literaturverfilmungen bekannt. Bei Radio Hamburg hatte er auch mit Hörspielen große Erfolge. Bei etlichen seiner Filme trat er auch als Liedtexter in ...

  3. Helmut Käutner (1908-1980) was a German filmmaker who made comedies, dramas and thrillers. He is known for The Captain from Köpenick, The Last Bridge and The Rest Is Silence.

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    • Düsseldorf, Germany
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    • Castellina in Chianti, Tuscany, Italy
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  5. Apr 16, 2024 · Helmut Käutner was a German film director, actor, and screenwriter who was acclaimed as one of the most intelligent and humanistic directors of the Third Reich. Although the quality of his work was uneven, attributed partially to poor working conditions, he remains a leading figure in German.

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  6. The Last Bridge (German: Die Letzte Brücke) is a 1954 Austrian-Yugoslavian war drama film directed by Helmut Käutner and starring Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki and Barbara Rütting. It tells the story of a German nurse who is captured by Yugoslav partisans , and with her devotion to medical duty finds herself with divided loyalty to both sides ...

  7. Jul 14, 2008 · A supreme visual stylist, Käutner started as a man of the word—whose cinematic potential he keenly recognized, as evidenced in some of the earliest films by the actor-turned-director (and great actor's director), which were successful stabs at German screwball.

  8. This program presents a rare sampling of Käutners film production both during and after World War II. Helmut Käutner (1908–1980) was one of the most acclaimed German directors of his generation. Originally working in the theater as an actor and director, he began his film work as a scriptwriter before producing his controversial ...

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