Helmut Käutner

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Template:Short description Template:Expand German Template:Infobox person 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 is relatively unknown outside of Germany, although he is considered one of the best filmmakers in German film history.<ref>Who Is Helmut Käutner? A German master, ripe for centennial rediscovery.</ref> He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations.

Biography

He was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. Käutner started out as a director in the Nazi era, but his films remained largely free of National Socialist propaganda.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> One of his early successes was Romanze in Moll (1943), an adaptation of Guy du Maupassant's short story "Les Bijoux". Other remarkable films were {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} and Under the Bridges.

His 1956 film Der Hauptmann von Köpenick was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards.<ref name="Oscars1957">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. Käutner made two films for Universal Pictures in Hollywood: The Restless Years (1958) and A Stranger in My Arms (1959). However, neither of them received critical success and Käutner was unhappy with the lack of creative freedom he had, so he returned to Germany.<ref>"Das edelste Requisit", Der Spiegel (1959, in German)</ref> He died in Castellina in Chianti, Italy.

Selected filmography

Director

Feature Films

Television

Screenwriter

Actor

Literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – Unter den Brücken. 1944/45. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; Template:ISBN
  • Hans-Jürgen Tast: Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen. 1947. Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007; Template:ISBN

References

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Further reading

  • Peter Cornelsen. Helmut Käutner. Seine Filme, sein Leben. München: Heyne 1980. Template:ISBN.
  • Wolfgang Jacobsen & Hans-Helmut Prinzler: Käutner. Berlin: Wiss.-Verl. Spiess 1992. Template:ISBN.
  • Thomas Koebner, Fabienne Liptay, Claudia Mehlinger & René Ruppert (eds.): Helmut Käutner. München: edition text + kritik 2008. Template:ISBN.
  • Hans Dieter Schäfer. Moderne in Dritten Reich. Kultur der Intimität bei Oskar Loerke, Friedo Lampe und Helmut Käutner. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003; Template:ISBN.

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