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- Käutner’s last film of this period was the well-regarded Unter den Brücken (1945; Under the Bridges)—a movie made under the arduous conditions of the final days of the war, when filming was frequently interrupted by the noise of Allied bombers en route to Berlin.
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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 .
Käutner continued to thrive as a director after the war with such critical successes as The Last Bridge (1954), a stark, realistic war drama which won the International Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and Sky Without Stars (1955) which failed at the box office despite critical renown.
Jul 2, 2017 · The latest Käutner film I caught – an adaptation of Eugène Scribe’s creaky play The Glass of Water, made in 1960 – was little more than a camp curiosity; presumably included by season curator Olaf Möller to give some idea of the direction Käutner would take in television during the 1960s, it was unlikely to win over any disbelievers ...
After his ambitious, but muddled and unclear films "Der Apfel ist ab" ("The Original Sin", his last film produced by his production company Camera-Film GmbH) and "Epilog" (1950). Käutner was considered to be "worn out".
Helmut Käutner Archive | Cinema Austriaco. Film director: Helmut Käutner. THE LAST BRIDGE. The Last Bridge is a deep and touching drama that, at a time when people were trying to process what had happened in the dramatic preceding years, shows us war as a completely unfair reality.
Helmut Käutner was born on 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Captain from Köpenick (1956), The Last Bridge (1954) and The Rest Is Silence (1959).
