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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 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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Jul 2, 2017 · Klaus Kinski and OW Fischer in Ludwig II – Mad Emperor. Clearly, Ludwig II – Mad Emperor (1955) has very different subject matter, but in charting the Bavarian king’s gradual decline into isolation and paranoia Käutner again impresses through an overall restraint in terms of narrative and characterisation.
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as a scriptwriter before producing his controversial directorial debut Kitty and the World Conference (1939), which was withdrawn by the Nazi government due to its ...
Käutner wrote feuilletons and reviews and attended the theatre seminar of Arthur Kutscher whose students – besides Käutner, Kurt E. Heyne and Bernhard Eichhorn, Käutner's lifelong, close friends – performed in revues and other shows under the name of "Die Zirkusleute".
Helmut Käutner 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.
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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.
