Helmut Käutner (25 March 1908, Düsseldorf – 20 April 1980, Castellina in Chianti) was a German film director active mainly in the 1940s and 1950s. He began his career at the end of the Weimar Republic and had released his first major films in Nazi Germany.His 1956 film, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick, was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 29th Academy Awards. Three years later, his film The Rest Is Silence was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.