Helmut Käutner Movies

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening scene. While they exchange nostalgic stories about...

A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years. Upon his release, he wants to get a permit to...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly...

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

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

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

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....

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.

A poor 22 years old Hungarian man who's recently arrived in Paris meets a seemingly wealthy 17 years old Parisian girl. They fall in love, but...

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.

Singing sailor Hannes, who now entertains the crowd at St. Pauli's Hippodrome after years at sea, promises his dying brother that he will take care...

A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets....

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

Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her,...

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

In a fictitious European city known as Padukgrad, where a government arises following the rise of a philosophy known as "Ekwilism", which discourages...

Lieschen Müller is in her mid-20s, works a dull office job and fancies the handsome waiter from the diner down the street, wishing for a more...