Eduard Tisse

Eduard Kazimirovich Tisse (Russian: Эдуа́рд Казими́рович Тиссэ́; Latvian: Eduards Tisē; 13 April 1897 – 18 November 1961) was a Soviet cinematographer.^[1]

Eduard Tisse
Born	(1897-04-13)13 April 1897 Liepāja, Courland, Russian Empire (now Latvia)
Died	18 November 1961(1961-11-18) (aged 64) Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Cinematographer

Early life and career

He was born to an Estonian Swedish father and Russian mother in Liepāja; he grew up in Liepāja and studied both painting and photography.^[2]

Tisse started his career as a newsreel cameraman working under difficult conditions.^[3] From 1916 to 1918, he worked as a military cameraman. In 1921, Tisse became a professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.^[2] His career did not take off until he worked with director Sergei Eisenstein on the film Strike.^[4] Tisse would become Eisenstein's standard cinematographer for the next twenty years.^[5]

Tisse, along with Eisenstein and Grigori Alexandrov went on a trip in 1929. They traveled to Europe and the United States with the intent of finding new sound equipment and creating connections between Hollywood and the Soviet film industry. Eisenstein signed with Paramount Pictures and trio headed to California. They worked on several pictures, but nothing was actually produced.^[5] Through Eisenstein, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White met Tisse and in 1932, collaborated with her on Eyes on Russia (1933); this would be Bourke-White's only attempt at film making.^[6]

In 1942, Tisse worked on the film In The Mountains of Yugoslavia with Soviet filmmaker Abram Room. The film focused on the character Slavko Babic, his life and death, as well as the Yugoslav Partisan liberation during World War II. The film proved to be very influential for future Yugoslav filmmakers.^[7]

His favorite camera was the Debrie Parvo, which he continued to use even during the sound era to film silent sequences.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

• Strike (1924); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• The Battleship Potemkin (1925); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Aerograd (1935); directed by Alexander Dovzhenko
• ¡Que viva México! (1937); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Alexander Nevsky (1938); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• Ivan the Terrible (1944–46); directed by Sergei Eisenstein
• The Immortal Garrison; 1956

References

1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 694–696. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
2. "Тиссэ Эдуард Казимирович". Kino-Teatr. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
3. Kenez, Peter (2001). Cinema and Soviet Society: From the Revolution to the Death of Stalin. London; New York: I.B. Tauris; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press. pp. 40–41. ISBN 9781860646324. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
4. Kobel, Peter (2007). Silent movies : the birth of film and the triumph of movie culture. New York: Little, Brown and Co. ISBN 9780316117913. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
5. Neuberger, Joan (2003). Ivan the Terrible: The Film Companion. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781860645600. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
6. Ackerman, Ada (2016). New perspectives on Russian-American relations. New York: Routledge. p. 205. ISBN 9781317425151. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
7. DeCuir, Jr., Greg (2012). A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas. Chichester, U.K.; Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118294345. Retrieved 7 December 2015.

External links

• Eduard Tisse at IMDb
• Eduard Tisse at Find a Grave