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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.
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as a scriptwriter before producing his controversial directorial debut Kitty and the World Conference (1939), which was withdrawn by the Nazi government due to its ...
Jul 2, 2017 · Käutner’s may not have been the very finest films I saw in Bologna – he’s a terrific craftsman but not a major auteur – but they were extremely interesting and rewarding not only in themselves but for their resonance as works produced at a particularly fascinating period in German (and European) history. Since four of the five movies I ...
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 mainly directed his own adaptations of theatre plays and ennobled the cast of films like "Babeck" (1968), or "Die Frau in Weiß" (1971). As actor, director, and set designer, Käutner worked at theatres in Bochum, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
The release, a new restoration and digitization by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation that was shown during the 2017 Berlinale, comes on the heels of a renewed interest in Käutner’s films and German cinema from the 1940s through the advent of the New German Cinema in 1962.
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Jul 14, 2008 · Yet unlike Fassbinder, Käutner hardly got his due: Even his centenary saw only a handful of retrospectives (all 36 of his features were shown, for instance, at the Austrian Film Archive in Vienna in April) and a small tribute on German television: the culture-oriented station 3sat presented Käutner’s three official masterpieces—Romanze in ...
