Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich: an actor with an exploited appearance

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich is one of those actors who, even at the age of "over eighty", does not leave his favorite job. And this is despite the fact that he is always offered roles that are not at all positive characters, exploiting his external data. But the actor Konstantin Zheldin, whose biography will be presented in the article, is not upset, because he cannot imagine his life without cinema.

The beginning of life's journey

Little Kostya was born on the fifth day of October 1933 in Moscow. At birth, his surname was Schwabauer. Almost nothing is known about his childhood years. He was only seven when the war began. It is clear that the next few years were very difficult, like those of millions of Soviet children and adults.

He graduated from Pike in 1961. For the next two years, the young actor appeared on the stage of the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya (the performances "Mother", "Crime and Punishment" and others, and already in the 66th he became part of the troupe of the Taganka Theater, where heserved nearly a third of a century.

Soviet period of creativity

In the movie, Zheldin Konstantin, an actor at that time a beginner, made his debut 59 years ago, in the sixtieth. It was the film "Midshipman Panin" (directed by Mikhail Schweitzer). Then he was approved for the role of Baron von Lemke II in this difficult military historical drama, which was dedicated to the events of 1912 in Kronstadt. Despite such a successful start to his career, over the next seven years he appeared on the screen only once, playing in the drama "The Sinner" by Michael.

Zheldin was able to return to the screens only in the second half of the sixties. The directors noted his "non-Slavic", completely non-heroic appearance and used it only in negative roles. After a short period of time, it turned out that the young man was simply created for such strange and unsympathetic characters - insidious, nondescript, very suspicious, those who tried to get to the bottom of the truth. For example, in "Front Without Flanks" he brilliantly succeeded Kurt Schmidt, and in "His Excellency's Adjutant" - Viktor Zakharovich Osipov, a White Guard counterintelligence captain. But the hallmark of the actor was Wilhelm Holtoff, Obersturmbannführer. It was a character from Tamara Lioznova's painting "Seventeen Moments of Spring".

In the eighties, Zheldin, unfortunately, did not have such bright roles. But one cannot help but recall the episodic role of Father Chichikov in the film adaptation of Dead Souls.

Another theater

In 2001, Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich joined the troupe of the theater AboutStanislavsky's house. Here his talent was revealed from a new, unexpected side. This is especially evident in the play after the resurrection of Lazarus, where he got the role of investigator Porfiry Petrovich. It was a non-standard production, in which the seemingly incompatible was combined. The result was a very interesting performance, in which there were many dramatic and comedic scenes.

And there were also Ferapont in "Three Sisters", Actor in "To Forget or Live No More", Adam F alter in "The End of the World".

Wulf or Kolchin?

It is impossible not to dwell on one of the best works of the actor. One of the roles that Konstantin Borisovich Zheldin played at a fairly respectable age, and young viewers know him from it, is the role of the Nazi, German scientist Vladlen Kolchin (or, as he was called from birth, Ritter Wolf) in the TV series Closed School. The story is about the elite boarding school "Logos", where only children of we althy people or extremely gifted teenagers study. The arrival of Avdeev's brother and sister, Andrei and Nadia, marked the beginning of a chain of strange events.

Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich, whose photo has been appearing on the pages of glossy publications for many years, tried to show his character as an intelligent, rational, even cruel person. But at the same time, he loved his family very much - his wife Lizhen and daughter Ingrid.

Wulf, while still young, heard about the virus that Count Shcherbatov found in China. And then Ritter, as part of a group of scientists, went to a distant country. After creationthe first batch, he drew attention to the fact that the virus is transmitted exclusively through the blood. One day, his wife, entering the laboratory, touched the test tubes with the virus with her hand. They crashed. Lizhen injured her hand and became infected. Because she was pregnant at the time, their daughter was born already infected. This was the impetus for Wolf to start working on a cure for this terrible virus.

Ingrid, Natasha, Nadia…

When the Third Reich collapsed, Wulff and six other scientific associates moved to the USSR. Now Wulff had a new name - Vladlen Petrovich Kolchin. The NKVD allocated the count's estate for a laboratory. It was there that the Nazis settled, developing and improving the virus.

Merciless to others, Wulf could not forget his daughter many years later. Once he himself plunged her into a state of sleep so that she would not die from the virus. So she lay for several decades in a special capsule. All this time, Wulf tried to figure out how to save her. He adopted a girl from an orphanage (later an orphanage was opened in the count's estate). She is the first who turns out to be so similar to his daughter. Natasha - that was the name of the girl after the adoption - turns out to be one of those on whom Wolf conducts his experiments, without losing hope of saving his own daughter.

Despite his, so to speak, not very human qualities, Ritter turns out to be a truly brilliant scientist. He manages to make a vaccine and improve the virus itself. He even kidnaps his granddaughter Nadia, that is, Natasha's daughter, who also looks like Ingrid like two drops of water. Wulf is ready to kill the girl,to revive his daughter by transfusing her blood from Nadia. But he does not succeed: Wulf dies in the explosion of the estate's dungeon, which was arranged by one of his assistants - Konstantin Voitevich (or Helmut). All that remains is the Dominus clone in the capsule…

New age in creativity

Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich with the advent of the new century opened a second wind in himself. If he previously starred a little, and in the difficult nineties he disappeared from the screens, in old age the actor became in demand. The audience, as it were, rediscovered this talented person. Started with the role of a taxi driver in "Brother-2".

Now Zheldin played a lot. His roles were very different - financiers and butlers, doctors and jewelers … Moreover, he starred not only in films, but also in serials.

In the new century, the characters of the actor became criminal elements that replaced the Nazis from the past century. They were a thief in law from Maryina Grove, a bandit Shtekhel from Liquidation, a crime boss from Private Order.

Here he is, Konstantin Zheldin (actor). His personal life has never been made public. He tried to isolate her from everyone, because he is still sure that life and personal life is for that, so as not to spread about it. Konstantin Borisovich believes that viewers should only see his work.