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- Birth nameJanis Guters
- Johannes Guter was born on April 25, 1882 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for Die Frau im Käfig (1919), Die schwarze Pantherin (1921) and Die Frau im Himmel (1920). He died on March 18, 1962 in Greifswald, East Germany [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany].
- In 1917 he was employed at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden and finally at the Trianon Theatre in Berlin.
- The 1930s saw a drop in the number of feature films directed by Guter, though he began directing an increasing number of film shorts, a venture he began in 1929 with Meister des weißen Sports bei bedeutenden Spielen.
- Guter fell out of favor as a director in the 1940s, Ein fröhliches Haus (1944) starring Carla Rust and Rolf Weih, being the only notable production during the 1940s.
- Guter was first married to Latvian actress Mirdza Schmitchene and in 1919 he married opera singer Heidy Wilms.
- Despite his connection with the German film industry, Guter spent much of the 1920s living in Latvia, where he spent time attempting to build a Latvian film industry.
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