Jean Oser Explained

Jean Oser
Birth Place:	Straßburg, Alsace–Lorraine, German Empire
Death Place:	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Occupation:	Editor
Yearsactive:	1928–1970 (film)

Jean Oser (1908–2002) was a German-American film editor.^[1] He was born in the Alsatian capital of Straßburg (French: Strasbourg), which then was part of the German Empire but was subsequently transferred to France. He never had a French citizenship. He is sometimes credited as Hans Oser.

In the 1970s, he taught at the University of Regina Department of Film.

Selected filmography

• Land Without Women (1929)
• The Call of the North (1929)
• The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
• Dreyfus (1930)
• End of the Rainbow (1930)
• The Threepenny Opera (1931)
• L'Atlantide (1932)
• Happy Arenas (1935)
• The Lafarge Case (1938)
• The Postmaster's Daughter (1938)
• Final Accord (1938)
• Sarajevo (1940)

Bibliography

• Susan M. White. The Cinema of Max Ophuls: Magisterial Vision and the Figure of Woman″. Columbia University Press, 1995.

Notes and References

1. White p.368