Johannes Meyer (director)

Johannes Meyer (13 August 1888 – 25 January 1976) was a German screenwriter and film director. He should not be confused with the Danish actor of the same name. He directed a number of films during the Weimar, Nazi and post-War eras, most notably Fridericus (1936), one in a series of epics about Frederick the Great.^[1]

Selected filmography

• High Treason (1929)
• The Blonde Nightingale (1930)
• Two Heavenly Blue Eyes (1932)
• Happy Days in Aranjuez (1933)
• Die kleine Schwindlerin (1933)
• Black Fighter Johanna (1934)
• The Fugitive from Chicago (1934)
• The Legacy of Pretoria (1936)
• Fridericus (1937)
• Beate's Mystery (1938)
• The Singing Gate (1939)
• Rätsel der Nacht (1945)

References

1. ↑ Richards p.316

Bibliography

• Richards, Jeffrey. Visions of Yesterday. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973.
• Taylor, Richard. Film propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. I.B. Tauris, 1998.

External links

• Johannes Meyer at the Internet Movie Database