Fedor Ozep
Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep (Russian: Фёдор Александрович Оцеп, 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 Brothers 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. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1949.
Filmography
- Whispering City (1947), two versions were made at the same time
- Le père Chopin (1945)
- Cero en conducta (1945), co-director: José María Téllez
- Three Russian Girls (1943), co-director: Henry S. Kesler
- La principessa Tarakanova (1938)
- Gibraltar (1938)
- The Queen of Spades (1937)
- A Woman Alone (1936), co-writer only
- La peur (1934)
- Amok (1934)
- Großstadtnacht (1933), also co-writer
- Mirages de Paris (1933), also co-writer
Großstadtnacht and Mirages de Paris were two versions of the same film, made at the same time, one in French and one in German - The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931), also co-screenwriter
There were two versions made at the same time, one in French and one in German, German language film co-director: Erich Engels - The Living Corpse (1929), also co-screenwriter
- Kukla s millionami (1928), co-writer only
- Zemlya v plenu (Russian: "Earth in Captivity") or Der gelbe Paß (German: "The Yellow Pass") (1927), also writer (uk:Земля в полоні (фільм))
- Miss Mend (1926), co-director: Boris Barnet; also co-writer
- Aelita (1924), writer only
- Kollezhskiy registrator (1924), co-screenwriter only
- Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma (1924), writer only
- Polikushka (1922)
- Metel (1918), co-writer only
- The Queen of Spades (1916)