Eduard Kazimirovich Tisse (Russian: Эдуа́рд Казими́рович Тиссэ́, Latvian: Eduards Tisē; 13 April 1897, Liepāja – 18 November 1961, Moscow) was a Soviet cinematographer born to a Swedish father and Russian mother in Liepāja, Courland (now Latvia). He grew up in Liepāja and started his career as a newsreel cameraman during the Russian Civil War. His career took off working with such directors as Vladimir Gardin and Sergei Eisenstein, becoming the latter's standard cinematographer, occasionally sharing the position with others. His favorite camera was the Debrie Parvo, which he continued to use even during the sound era to film silent sequences.
Trained as a painter and still photographer. Started working behind the camera on newsreels during the First World War, thereafter branching out into documentaries. Best known for his collaboration with Sergei M. Eisenstein between 1924 and 1946.
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
V gorakh Yugoslavii
1946
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
1945
exteriors
Seeds of Freedom
1943
Potemkin sequences
Time in the Sun
1940
Documentary
Alexander Nevsky
1938
as E. Tisse
Bezhin lug
1937
Short
Frontier
1935
Death Day
1934
Short
Eisenstein in Mexico
1933
Documentary
Thunder Over Mexico
1933
¡Que viva Mexico!
1932
La destrucción de Oaxaca
1931
Documentary short
Romance sentimentale
1930
Short
Women's Misery - Women's Happiness
1930
Short
The Storming of La Sarraz
1929
Old and New
1929
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928
Battleship Potemkin
1925
lead cinematographer
Zolotoy zapas
1925
Stachka
1925
Jewish Luck
1925
The Bear's Wedding
1925
prologue
Teplaya kompaniya
1924
Starets Vasiliy Gryaznov
1924
Golod... golod... golod
1921
Documentary
Serp i molot
1921
Signal
1918
Sergey Eyzenshteyn. Meksikanskaya fantasiya
1998
Documentary
Que Viva Mexico
1979
Documentary
Ivan the Terrible, Part II
1958
as E. Tisse
The Immortal Garrison
1956
Serebristaya pyl
1953
Man of Music
1952
Vstrecha na Elbe
1949
Vozvrashchenie s pobedoy
1948
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Immortal Garrison
1956
Women's Misery - Women's Happiness
1930
Short as Eduard Tissé
Gore i radost zhenshchiny
1929
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lenin vivo
1970
Documentary short cinematographer: archive footage - uncredited
Kino-pravda no. 21 - Leninskaia Kino-pravda. Kinopoema o Lenine
1925
Documentary short camera operator
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
1928
German Soldier
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
La destrucción de Oaxaca
1931
Documentary short
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Women's Misery - Women's Happiness
1930
Short as Eduard Tissé
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sergey Eyzenshteyn. Meksikanskaya fantasiya
1998
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dem Panzerkreuzer Potemkin auf der Spur
2007
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein
1987
Documentary
Himself - with Eisenstein
Sergey Eyzenshteyn
1958
Documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1956
Special Mention
Venice Film Festival
Bessmertnyy garnizon (1956)
1950
Stalinskaya Premia
State Prize of Soviet Union - Stalinskaya Premia
First Category
Vstrecha na Elbe (1949)
1946
Prize
Locarno International Film Festival
Best Cinematography
Ivan Groznyy (1945)
1946
Stalinskaya Premia
State Prize of Soviet Union - Stalinskaya Premia
First Category
Ivan Groznyy (1945)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1956
Golden Lion
Venice Film Festival
Bessmertnyy garnizon (1956)
Known for movies
Battleship Potemkin (1925) as Cinematographer
Alexander Nevsky (1938) as Cinematographer
Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945) as Cinematographer
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958) as Cinematographer
$300,000
