Fedor Ozep
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. 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. 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.
Also recorded as Fyodor Otsep
Fedor Ozep
- Born
- 1895. · Moscow.
- Died
- 1949. · Beverly Hills.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- screenwriter, actor, director, writer and film editor.
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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. 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. 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.
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His last two films were made in Canada. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1949.
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 (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
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1949
Fedor Ozep died at Beverly Hills.
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- DVD : Mr West au Pays des Bolchéviks de Lev Kouléchov; Miss Mend, de Boris Barnet et Fedor Ozep, 1895, 2016
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- 1.Peter Rollberg. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. 506–507. 2009. 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- 2.Cultural History Through a National Socialist Lens: Essays on the Cinema of The Third Reich
- 3.Limore Yagil Au nom de l'art, 1933-1945: Exils, solidarités et engagements
- 4.Address book «Вся Москва» (1900).
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