Eduard Tisse

Born

1897-04-01

Died

1961-11-18

Birthplace

Liepāja, Latvia

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.