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Eduard Tisse

Camera

Born April 1, 1897 · Liepāja, Latvia

Died November 18, 1961

Also known as Eduard Tissé · E. Tisse · Edouard Tissé

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Biography

Eduard Tisse (13 April 1897 – 18 November 1961) was a Soviet cinematographer. In 1921, Tisse became a professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His career took off when he worked with director Sergei Eisenstein on the film Strike. Tisse would become Eisenstein's standard cinematographer for the next twenty years.

Awards & recognition

  • State Stalin Prize, 1st degree · 1950
  • State Stalin Prize, 1st degree · 1949
  • Honored Art Worker of the Latvian SSR · 1947
  • State Stalin Prize, 1st degree · 1946
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour · 1939
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  • Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic · 1935

Filmography8 titles

Battleship Potemkin

1925Director of Photography

Strike

1925Director of Photography

Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

1946Director of Photography

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

1944Director of Photography

Alexander Nevsky

1938Director of Photography

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928as German Soldier

Que Viva Mexico

1979Director of Photography

The General Line

1929Director of Photography