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Helmut Käutner
Helmut Käutner (born 25 March 1908 in Düsseldorf, Germany; died 20 April 1980 in Castellina in Chianti, Italy) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released 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. Three years later, his film "The Rest Is Silence" was entered into
Kulleraugen, 2007;
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: "Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen. 1947". Schellerten: Kulleraugen, 2007;
Further reading.
- Peter Cornelsen. "Helmut Käutner. Seine Filme, sein Leben." München: Heyne 1980. .
- Wolfgang Jacobsen & Hans-Helmut Prinzler: "Käutner". Berlin: Wiss.-Verl. Spiess 1992. .
- Thomas Koebner, Fabienne Liptay, Claudia Mehlinger & René Ruppert (eds.): "Helmut Käutner". München