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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Käutner has received more than 66,922 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Helmut Käutner is the 962nd most popular film director (down from 930th in 2019), the 4,394th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,006th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Helmut Käutner ranks 962 out of 2,041. Before her are Serge Bourguignon, Alexander Mackendrick, Souleymane Cissé, Andre DeToth, Shane Black, and Spike Jonze. After her are David Miller, John Flynn, Dariusz Wolski, Danis Tanović, Hal Needham, and Vladimir Bortko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Helmut Käutner ranks 254. Before her are Hu Die, Erich Srbek, Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Boris Rybakov, and Sonja Graf. After her are Aleksei Arbuzov, Demetrio Neyra, Walter Bruch, Luis de Souza Ferreira, Alfred Eisenbeisser, and Birgit Cullberg. Among people deceased in 1980, Helmut Käutner ranks 198. Before her are Uttam Kumar, Petar Trifunović, Ben Sharpsteen, Charley Borah, László Szollás, and Vasja Pirc. After her are Gaetano Belloni, Héctor Socorro, Jim Fouché, Louis Daquin, Haydée Santamaría, and Jimmy Durante.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Käutner ranks 4,394 out of 7,253. Before her are Ludwig Lachmann (1906), Marianne Hoppe (1909), Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Sonja Graf (1908), and Thomas Quasthoff (1959). After her are Gustav von Alvensleben (1803), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), Daniel Hopfer (1470), Heide Rosendahl (1947), E. O. Plauen (1903), and Ole Borch (1626).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Helmut Käutner ranks 47. Before her are Uwe Boll (1965), Edgar Reitz (1932), Wolfgang Becker (1954), Percy Adlon (1935), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), and Ludwig Berger (1892). After her are Kurt Maetzig (1911), Helmut Dietl (1944), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973), Peter Fleischmann (1937), Frank Beyer (1932), and Herbert Selpin (1904).

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