FILM DIRECTOR

Helmut Käutner

1908 - 1980

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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. He was one of the most influential film directors of German post-war cinema and became known for his sophisticated literary adaptations. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Käutner is the 965th most popular film director (down from 962nd in 2019), the 4,478th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,394th in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Helmut Käutner ranks 965 out of 2,041. Before her are John Cromwell, Steven Knight, Safi Faye, Kevin S. Bright, Tadashi Imai, and Jonathan Nolan. After her are Mikael Håfström, William Castle, Jørgen Leth, Giuseppe Amato, Kad Merad, and Pasqualino De Santis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Helmut Käutner ranks 271. Before her are Ivan Brown, Jesús Castro, Devika Rani, Yvette Cauchois, Buddy Ebsen, and Aleksei Arbuzov. After her are Jenő Vincze, Tommaso Landolfi, Winston Graham, Arkhip Lyulka, Isaak Kikoin, and Louis Daquin. Among people deceased in 1980, Helmut Käutner ranks 207. Before her are Rostislav Alexeyev, Marion Zinderstein, Vladimír Holan, Ilie Subășeanu, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, and Humberto Tozzi. After her are Louis Daquin, Graham Sutherland, Carlo Annovazzi, Keijo Liinamaa, Peppino De Filippo, and Vicente de la Mata.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Käutner ranks 4,481 out of 7,253. Before her are Louise Otto-Peters (1819), Heinrich Schomburgk (1885), Didi Senft (1952), Angela Gossow (1974), Bruno Frank (1887), and Carl Ludwig Christian Rümker (1788). After her are Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss (1951), Jean Gilbert (1879), Brigitte Fassbaender (1939), Norbert Haug (1952), Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), and Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Helmut Käutner ranks 51. Before her are Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Uwe Boll (1965), Marc Forster (1969), Ludwig Berger (1892), and Peter Fleischmann (1937). After her are Frank Beyer (1932), Helmut Dietl (1944), Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973), Kurt Maetzig (1911), and Gerhard Lamprecht (1897).

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