Johannes Meyer (director)

{{short description|German film director}}

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| birth_date = 13 August 1888

| birth_place = Brieg, Silesia, German Empire

| death_date = 25 January 1976

| death_place = Marburg, Hesse, West Germany

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| occupation =Director, Writer

| yearsactive = 1921-1951 (film)

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Johannes Meyer (13 August 1888 – 25 January 1976) was a German screenwriter and film director. 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.Richards p.316

Selected filmography

References

Bibliography

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