Name Fedor Ozep Role Film director | Spouse Anna Sten (m. 1927–1931) | |
Died June 20, 1949, Beverly Hills, California, United States Movies Miss Mend, Aelita, Whispering City, Gibraltar, The Cigarette Girl from Similar People Anna Sten, Boris Barnet, Yakov Protazanov, Anel Sudakevich, Nikolai Tseretelli | ||
Opening sequence from Amok (1934)
02 Inge Meysel - Erster Filmauftritt 1932 - weitere Szenen
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.
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- Opening sequence from Amok 1934
- 02 Inge Meysel Erster Filmauftritt 1932 weitere Szenen
- Filmography
- References
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. He died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1949.