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 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.
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
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
