Serge Otzoup

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Serge Otzoup , ( Russian Сергей Авдеевич Оцуп , Sergei Awdejewitsch Ozup , Spanish Sergio Otzoup ; * March 8th July / March 20,  1886 greg. In Tsarskoje Selo near St. Petersburg ; † March 25, 1974 in Madrid , Spain ) was a Russian-born professional officer , businessman and film producer and production manager for Western European film.

The early years

Sergei Ozup struck after his visit of Tsar Nicholas School in his birthplace, the residence of the tsars Tsarskoye Selo, a military career one - rank: Lieutenant - and was temporarily the bodyguard of the Tsar on. After the October Revolution he came to the West.

In Berlin the corporate name of the early 1920s as Serge Otzoup, he first worked as a merchant. According to an “address book of directors and supervisory boards” from 1924, he was director of Gesfirus AG for international trade with Russia and was a member of the supervisory board of Rhön-Bank AG in Mellrichstadt .

Activities in the film business

Finally, in 1929 he made contact with German film, worked as a production manager and co-producer (including for the Berlin-based Lothar-Stark-Film) and owned production companies in Vienna and Berlin, namely Serge-Otzoup-Film and Itala-Film . He was also active in film sales.

Otzoup completely stopped his short-lived activity as a film producer in 1935. Instead, he completely dedicated himself to National Socialist film policy. From mid-1935 he worked for a company founded by himself and his colleague Friedrich Wilhelm Gaik , which was supposed to perfect and expand control over the casting of Austrian films. This company, known as the “Combination Otzoup”, should primarily ensure that the films produced in Austria also comply with the German quota provisions as laid down in the German-Austrian agreement for films to be exported to Germany. This was especially true for the required Aryan proof of all those involved in these films, including the extras and the technical staff. Attempts by Otzoups to set up their own film projects on the side failed. So the end of 1937 was reported that Otzoup in Italy try the (never realized) Lilian Harvey -Filmprojekt Long Live Love to take shape.

In the meantime, Otzoup, who was loyal to the regime, had also established contacts with the fascist Falange in Spain and had taken part in setting up a German-Spanish joint production, the Hispano-Film-Produktion, which was intended to support General Franco in support of Hitler's Germany . After the victory of fascism in Spain in 1939, Otzoup , who had been married to the (also exiled Russian) actress Alexandra Sorina since 1932, left Germany and moved to Madrid . His wife and both children stayed in Berlin, his son Pedro from his first marriage later made a career as an architect in Spain (especially in the Balearic Islands ). Serge Otzoup himself apparently only produced one film in Spain, Cervantes with Horst Buchholz in the title role.

Worked as an icon expert and art collector

The Russian exile, who now called himself Sergio Otzoup, made a name for himself above all as an art collector in his new adopted home . His important collection of icons (around 1200 pieces from over four centuries and five nations: Russia, Ukraine , Bulgaria , Greece , Romania ), which has been carefully built up since his early years , has been on view in the La Casa Grande private museum in Madrid since his death in 1974. In the last three months of 1965, the Prado Museum in Madrid also hosted an exhibition of Otzoup's icons. Otzoup also wrote festival publications and art books about his lifelong hobby.

Filmography (as producer or production manager)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the film archive Kay Less
  2. ^ Prohibited films from 1933–1945 Forum Prohibited and censored media after 1945
  3. ^ Wolfgang Bumberger: The Vienna Film 1945/46. Austrian film production at the transition from the Third Reich to the occupation (PDF; 1.4 MB) Diploma thesis, p. 15
  4. ^ Pem's Privat Reports in the December 1, 1937 edition
  5. ↑ Manuel Nicolás Meseguer: LA CINEMATOGRAFÍA NAZI AL SERVICIO DE LA CAUSA NACIONAL ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 4/5 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.secc.es
  6. ↑ THE JAILY NEWS: Carceles de Cine "Prisioneros de Guerra" blog
  7. ↑ Iconos en Madrid ABS.es Hemeroteca
  8. ↑ Epílogo y Viaje, del primer Taller de Iconos de Alcaudete Asociación Cultural, Amigos de Alcaudete (travel report of an excursion)
  9. ↑ Museo de Iconos ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Private forum @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / memoriablau.foros.ws
  10. ↑ Exposición de iconos. Colección Sergio Otzoup exposición 1965 ; Museo Nacional del Prado
  11. ↑ ICONS - ARTE SACRO ORIENTAL, COLECCION SERGIO OTZOUP AbeBooks.de
personal data
SURNAME Otzoup, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otzoup, Sergio; Ozup, Sergei Avdejewitsch (maiden name); Оцуп, Сергей Авдеевич (maiden name, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian film producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsarskoye Selo
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1974
Place of death Madrid