Helmut Käutner

Helmut Käutner was born in 1908 in Düsseldorf. After studies in Munich, he worked in cabaret, then became an actor and theatre director and, from 1938, a film screenwriter. He directed his first film in 1939 and made, under the Nazi regime, films that for the most part stayed clear of propaganda. After the war, he ranked among the most prominent German filmmakers, made two films in Hollywood in the late fifties, then worked for television. He died in Tuscany in 1980.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaUnder the BridgesUnter den BrückenHelmut Käutner · 1946Cinema
• CinemaThe Last BridgeDie letzte BrückeHelmut Käutner · 1954Cinema