Helmut Käutner Movies

A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condition that he himself behaves in a disreputable way.

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

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

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...

In 1959, in a small German village, the annual fair is set up. When a carousel is fixed firmly in the ground, a fair worker discovers a skeleton, a...

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

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...

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological...

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...

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...

Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager....

The setting is Lugano (Switzerland), where an apparently very important world conference takes place. The film tells the story of the young Kitty...

On his wedding day a sea captain recounts his various adventures to his guests