Helmut Käutner
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| Helmut Käutner | |
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| Born | 25 March 1908 |
| Died | 20 April 1980 (aged 72) |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1940 – 1976 |
Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908 – 20 April 1980) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He started out at the end of the Weimar Republic and had his first major films in Nazi Germany.
His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards.[1] Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]
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[edit] Filmography
- Kleider Machen Leute (Clothes Make the Man) 1940
- Anuschka 1942
- Romance in a Minor Key 1943
- Große Freiheit Nr. 7 1944
- Under the Bridges 1945
- In jenen Tagen (In Those Days) 1947
- The Original Sin 1948
- Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs 1954
- Die letzte Brücke 1954
- The Girl from Flanders 1955
- Himmel ohne Sterne (Sky without Stars) 1955
- Des Teufels General 1955
- The Captain of Köpenick 1956
- Monpti (1957)
- The Rest Is Silence (1959)
- A Glass of Water (1960)
- Redhead (1962)
- Die Feuerzangenbowle (The Fire Tongue Bowl) (1970)
- Derrick - Season 2, Episode 3 "Nur Aufregungen für Rohn" (as actor) (1975)
- Derrick - Season 3, Episode 8: "Auf eigene Faust" (as actor) (1976)
[edit] Literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner — Unter den Brücken. 1944/45. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007 ISBN 978-3-88842-033-7
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner — In jenen Tagen. 1947. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007 ISBN 978-3-88842-034-4
[edit] References
- ^ "The 29th Academy Awards (1957) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/29th-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for The Rest Is Silence". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053217/awards. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
[edit] Further reading
- Peter Cornelsen: Helmut Käutner. Seine Filme, sein Leben. München: Heyne 1980. (= Heyne Filmbibliothek. 27.) ISBN 3-453-86027-6.
- Wolfgang Jacobsen & Hans-Helmut Prinzler: Käutner. Berlin: Wiss.-Verl. Spiess 1992. (= Edition Filme. 8.) ISBN 3-89166-159-2.
- Thomas Koebner, Fabienne Liptay, Claudia Mehlinger & René Ruppert (eds.): Helmut Käutner. München: edition text + kritik 2008. (= Film-Konzepte. 11.) ISBN 978-3-88377-943-0.
- Hans Dieter Schäfer: Moderne in Dritten Reich. Kultur der Intimität bei Oskar Loerke, Friedo Lampe und Helmut Käutner. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-515-08432-0.
