Helmut Käutner Movies

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

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

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...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

The relationship between Franziska and her partner Michael, a globetrotting photojournalist, remains strained due to their constant separation, until...

The poor ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a brave descendant who will release him from the...

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

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

Robin Hood, the noble robber with a gentle soul and hard fists, lives with his band of robbers in the forest of Sherwood. While he helps the poor,...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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...

A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a...

An apple juice producer can't decide between his wife and his secretary and tries to commit suicide. Being committed to psychiatry, he falls asleep...

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working...

A "mufti" version of Hamlet, with young Hardy Krüger trying to prove that his uncle has killed his father. Direct references to the Shakespeare...

Vienna during the fin de siecle. Farmer's daughter Anuschka has to sell the farm after her father's death to the rich but mean farmer's wife Nowarek...

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he...