Helmut Käutner — Playwright (10)

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Portrait of an Unknown Woman (1954)
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other title: Bildnis einer Unbekannten / Portrait d'une inconnue …
Keller, a painter, while at the ballet is impressed with the beauty of Nicole and sketches her head on the body of a nude model. When it is shown, it causes embarrassment to Nicole's husband, Walter, a diplomat whose career is threatened.

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The Fire Tongs Bowl (1970)
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other title: Die Feuerzangenbowle / El ponche
A successful author, who was educated by private teachers in his home instead of being sent to school with other boys, realizes he missed out on a lot fun in his younger years. He decides to make up for this and attends school classes disguised as a pupil.

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Clothes Make the Man (1940)
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other title: Kleider machen Leute / 人靠衣装 …
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is allowed, however, to take the frock, which he appropriated for himself and he puts it on as he leaves the shop. A puppeteer picks him up in his coach and addresses Wenzel as "Count". So is he received in Goldach, where people think he is Count Stroganoff, the ambassador to the Czar of Russia.

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Sky Without Stars (1955)
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other title: Himmel ohne Sterne / Ciel sans étoiles …
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany, but her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West. Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl, who helps her cross the border, and they fall in love.

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The Zurich Engagement (1957)
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other title: Die Zürcher Verlobung / Compromiso en Zúrich …
Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...

Movie

Royal Children (1950)
Königskinder Douban
other title: 国王的孩子 / Königskinder
昔日生活优越的布兰登堡的公主乌里克在二战结束后只能在南德的一座破旧城堡度日。没想到在这里,乌里克与来自平民阶层的保罗互生爱慕之意。为了维持生计,两个人一同导览了这座古老城堡的参观活动,游客们尤其是美国人,络绎不绝。突然有一天,与乌里克在战前订了婚 的塞萨利王储——亚历山大王子出现在面前。在保罗与未婚夫之间,在个人爱情与整个家族的财务状况之间,乌里克必须做出一个抉择……