Word: kautner
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...director, Helmut Kautner, can speak through the visual medium many times more subtly than through the verbal. He records scenes that express the whole depth of the film in a few seconds. And old woman offers the boots of her dead grandson to Helga, thinking she has deserted the Germans of her own will, and Kautner elicits a dramatic poignancy that is almost unbearable. In just the last few frames of one sequence a kitten appears to follow Helga out of the room, and by his cinematic control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering...
...Last Bridge. Another by Director Kautner: the parable of a German doctor (Maria Schell) and how she learns that humanity is more important than her country (TIME, Sept...