Fedor Ozep

Russian film director

Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep (Russian: Фёдор Алекса́ндрович О́цеп, Fyodor Aleksandrovich Otsep; February 9, 1895 – June 20, 1949) was a Russian-American film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow.^[1] An important early writer on film and film theory, he served as dramaturge for the Mezhrabpomfilm-Rus company and wrote a number of films for directors such as V.I. Pudovkin and Yakov Protazanov before turning to directing in 1926.

Ozep was born into a Jewish merchant family in Moscow;^[2]^[3] his parents Khonon and Basya Otsep owned an umbrella factory.^[4] During the production of The Living Corpse in Germany, he decided to remain and worked throughout Europe during the 1930s, enjoying international acclaim for films including The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov and Amok. With the advent of World War II he moved to Hollywood but was unable to establish a career there, directing only one film. His last two films were made in Canada.^[1] He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1949.

Filmography

The Queen of Spades (1916, dir. Yakov Protazanov), screenwriter
Metel (1918, dir. Nikolai Malikoff), screenwriter
Polikushka (1922, dir. Alexander Sanin), screenwriter
The Cigarette Girl from Mosselprom (1924, dir. Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky), screenwriter
The Stationmaster (1925, dir. Ivan Moskvin, Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky), screenwriter
Aelita (1924, dir. Yakov Protazanov), screenwriter
Miss Mend (1926, dir. Fedor Ozep, Boris Barnet), director and screenwriter
The Yellow Ticket (1928), director and screenwriter
The Doll With Millions (1928, dir. Sergei Komarov), screenwriter
The Living Corpse (1929), director and screenwriter
The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931), director and screenwriter
- There were two versions made at the same time, one in French and one in German, German language film co-director: Erich Engels
Mirages de Paris (1933), director and screenwriter
Großstadtnacht (1933), director and screenwriter
- Großstadtnacht and Mirages de Paris were two versions of the same film, made at the same time, one in French and one in German
Amok (1934), director
A Woman Alone (1936, dir. Eugene Frenke), screenwriter
The Queen of Spades [fr] (1937), director and screenwriter
Gibraltar (1938), director
Princess Tarakanova (1938), director and screenwriter
- There were two versions made at the same time, one in French and one in Italian, Italian language film co-director: Mario Soldati
Three Russian Girls (1943, dir. Fedor Ozep, Henry S. Kesler), director
Cero en conducta (1945, dir. Fedor Ozep, José María Téllez), director
The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) (1945), director
Whispering City (1947), director
La Forteresse (1947), director
- Whispering City and La Forteresse were two versions of the same film, made at the same time, one in English and one in French

References

^ ^a ^b Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 506–507. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^ Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of The Third Reich
^ Limore Yagil Au nom de l'art, 1933-1945: Exils, solidarités et engagements
^ Address book «Вся Москва» (1900)