FILM DIRECTOR

Fedor Ozep

1895 - 1949

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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. Ozep was born into a Jewish merchant family in Moscow; his parents Khonon and Basya Otsep owned an umbrella factory. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fedor Ozep is the 682nd most popular film director (up from 1,022nd in 2019), the 1,229th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,773rd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Fedor Ozep ranks 682 out of 2,041. Before him are João César Monteiro, Andrew Marton, Andrzej Munk, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Christopher Doyle, and Karl Freund. After him are Vilgot Sjöman, David Silverman, E. A. Dupont, Percy Adlon, Giuliano Montaldo, and Claude Pinoteau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Fedor Ozep ranks 161. Before him are Bill W., Paul Gorguloff, John J. McCloy, Corrado Alvaro, Rudolph Minkowski, and Jankel Adler. After him are Morris Kirksey, Walter Bedell Smith, Immanuel Velikovsky, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Earl Thomson, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Among people deceased in 1949, Fedor Ozep ranks 107. Before him are Kanji Ishiwara, Maria Ouspenskaya, René Maire, Walter Short, Nikolay Gamaleya, and Jankel Adler. After him are Ehmetjan Qasim, Joaquín Torres-García, Kijirō Nambu, Oton Župančič, Chairil Anwar, and Uemura Shōen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Fedor Ozep ranks 1,229 out of 3,761. Before him are Lyudmila Zykina (1929), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Sergey Surovikin (1966), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878), and Valery Afanassiev (1947). After him are Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Zacharias Werner (1768), Erkki Melartin (1875), Serge Poliakoff (1900), Vladimir Steklov (1864), and Kir Bulychev (1934).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Fedor Ozep ranks 23. Before him are Boris Barnet (1902), Yuri Norstein (1941), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Sergei Bodrov (1948), Sergei Gerasimov (1906), and Andrey Zvyagintsev (1964). After him are Stanislav Govorukhin (1936), Ivan Pyryev (1901), Aleksei Yuryevich German (1938), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Pyotr Chardynin (1873), and Aleksei Balabanov (1959).

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