Leo Meyer (29 August 1873, in

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– 11 February 1944) was a German

film producer A film producer is a person who oversees film production. Either employed by a production company or working independently, producers plan and coordinate various aspects of film production, such as selecting the script, coordinating writing, di ...

. He is sometimes also credited as Leo Meijer. Following the

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rise to power Meyer, who was

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, went into exile and emigrated to the

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where he continued to produce films. Amongst the films that Meyer worked on in

Weimar Germany The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a Constitutional republic, constitutional federal republic for the first time in ...

was the war film ''

Westfront 1918 ''Westfront 1918'' is a German war film, set mostly in the trench warfare, trenches of the Western Front (World War I), Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by G. W. Pabst, from a screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda based on the n ...

'' Ashkenazi p.199

Selected filmography

* '' Rinaldo Rinaldini'' (1927) * ''

Circle of Lovers ''Circle of Lovers'' (german: Liebesreigen) is a 1927 German silent film, silent drama film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and Rudolf Dworsky and starring Hans Mierendorff, Marcella Albani, and Charlotte Ander.Grange p.Grange p. 266 It was shot ...

'' (1927) * ''

Sex in Chains ''Sex in Chains'' (german: Geschlecht in Fesseln – Die Sexualnot der Strafgefangenen) is a 1928 silent film directed by William Dieterle. Plot The film opens with Franz Sommer (Dieterle) and his newlywed wife, Helene ( Mary Johnson). They are ...

'' (1928) * ''

Somnambul ''Somnambul'' is a 1929 Cinema of Germany, German silent film, silent horror film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Fritz Kortner, Erna Morena and Veit Harlan. The film is set against the backdrop of spiritualism. The Berlin clairvoyant Elsb ...

'' (1929) * ''

Marriage in Trouble ''Marriage in Trouble'' (German: ''Ehe in Not'') is a 1929 German silent drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Elga Brink, Walter Rilla and Evelyn Holt. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin. The film's art direction was by Franz ...

'' (1929) * ''

'' (1930) * ''

Panic in Chicago ''Panic in Chicago'' (german: Panik in Chicago) is a 1931 German crime film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Olga Tschechowa, Hans Rehmann and Ferdinand Hart. It was based on the novel ''Panic in Chicago'' by the German writer Robert Heyma ...

'' (1931) * ''

The First Right of the Child ''The First Right of the Child'' (german: Das erste Recht des Kindes) is a 1932 German drama film directed by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Hertha Thiele, Eduard Wesener and Helene Fehdmer. The film's sets were designed by the art director E ...

'' (1932)

References

Bibliography

* Ashkenazi, Ofer. ''Weimar Film and Modern Jewish Identity''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

External links

* 1873 births 1944 deaths German film producers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands People from Białogard County {{Germany-film-bio-stub