Eduard Kasimirowitsch Tisse

Eduard Tisse ( Russian Эдуард Казимирович Тиссэ , Latvian Edward Tise ; * April 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. April  1897 ^greg. In Liepaja ; † 18th November 1961 in Moscow ) was a Russian or later Soviet , cameraman and film director Latvian origin. He was best known for his collaboration with director Sergei Eisenstein .

Life

In 1913 Tisse left the naval college to study photography and painting in Professor E. Graenzinger's studio in Stockholm . In 1914 he finished his studies and started working as a cameraman. From 1916 to 1918 he worked as a cameraman on the front lines of the First World War , where he was wounded while using poison gas. During the years of the Russian Revolution and the Civil War , from 1918 to 1921, he worked as a cameraman for the newsreel and staged around 200 film reports, which he also edited .

In 1918 he participated in his first feature film as a cinematographer, signal Alexander Arkatow.

In 1921 Tisse became a professor at the Moscow State Film School and taught camera. Two years later he was selected to work as a cameraman for Sergei Eisenstein in his film Strike . The film was completed in 1925. In the same year, the armored cruiser Potemkin was built and Tisse was again responsible for camera work. He was also involved in Alexei Granowski's film Jewish happiness .

In 1927 he shot the revolutionary film October with Eisenstein . From 1926 to 1928 both worked on the film Die Generallinie and, in Germany, on Poison Gas . In 1930 Tisse first appeared as a director and directed the Swiss film Frauennot - Frauenglück .

In the following years, he and Eisenstein traveled through Western Europe, the United States and Mexico until 1933. Together they wanted to study sound engineering in different countries. They also shot the film Que viva Mexico in Mexico! which, however, remained unfinished.

Tisse shot three more films as a director, u. a. the film Encounter on the Elbe from 1949. As a cameraman he continued to work for Eisenstein and worked in the 1940s and 1950s on his works Iwan the Terrible I and Iwan the Terrible II . The joint historical film Alexander Newski was made as early as 1938 .

In 1946 he was awarded for his work on the film Ivan the Terrible I at the Locarno International Film Festival in the camera work category.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.difarchiv.deutsches-filminstitut.de/dt2tp0123.htm

Web links

• Eduard Tisse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography at DIF