Films of Konstantin Khabensky invariably attract the attention of domestic viewers for twenty years. During which this completely extraordinary, but at the same time, some unusually "real" artist, who resembled one of the most sought-after actors of modern Russia with the types of his movie roles in our neighbors or ordinary people whom we meet daily in our life, . Each new picture of him, without exaggeration, is a real event in the world of Russian cinema.
This actor does not just live in the frame. In fact, each of the nearly seventy paintings in which he has played to date is a kind of film about Konstantin Khabensky and his great revelation to the viewer.
Our today's task will be to compile a list of films in which he played an exclusively leading role, as well as an overview of the best of them.
Brief creative biography
Honored and People's Artist of the Russian Federation Konstantin Yuryevich Khabensky was born into a simple Leningrad family of an engineer and teacher of mathematics on January 11, 1972. The future star of Russian cinema did not attach much importance to schooling, so after the eighth grade he became a student at the College of Aviation Instrumentation and Automation. By the third year, Khabensky realized that he was mistaken in choosing a life path, dropped out of college and spent several years in free swimming. It was that truly magical time of the Leningrad 80s, when in some ordinary polisher, janitor or street musician you could recognize not just anyone, but Konstantin Khabensky himself ...
In 1990, our hero became a student of the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, after which he worked for about a year in the troupe of the Experimental Theater "Crossroads". In 1996, the aspiring actor received a transfer to the theater of Konstantin Raikin "Satyricon" and went to Moscow.
Below in the photo you can see Konstantin Khabensky in the series "Deadly Force".
Since 2003, Khabensky became an artist in the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov, which he has served to this day.
The cinema appeared in the biography of Konstantin Khabensky in his fourth year at the Leningrad Institute, when he starred in a short episode of the film "To Whom God Will Send" in 1994. In 1998, the actor was entrusted with the first major role in his life in the melodrama "Women's Property", and two years later, after playing the role of Igor Plakhov in the famous series "Deadly Force", Khabensky gained real fame and popularity. It was from 2000 that the countdown of his best paintings began.
The main roles of the actor. List
So, let's figure out what the main roles in the filmography of Konstantin Khabensky we can remember for his entire career in cinema today. These paintings are not so many, only eighteen, but what ones.
As mentioned above, the first such picture was "Women's Property", which appeared on the screens of the country back in 1998.
From 2000 to 2005, Khabensky could be in the role of the protagonist of such films as “House for the Rich” (2000), “Night Watch” (2004), “Poor Relatives” (2005) and “Day Watch” (2005) .
From 2006 to 2010, the actor added to his popularity with his works in the films “Rush Hour” (2006), “Irony of Fate. Continuation” (2007), “Brownie” (2008), “Admiral” (2008) and “Freaks” (2011 )
In the photo below - a shot from the film "The Irony of Fate. Continued."
From 2011 to 2015, the actor sounded unusually loud in such brilliant works as “Heavenly Court” (2011), “Geographer drank the globe” (2013), “Petr Leshchenko. All that was ...” (2013) and “Method "(2015). Today, the last paintings and series with Konstantin Khabensky in the lead role are Collector (2016), Selfie (2017), Trotsky (2017) and Sobibor (2018).
In the photo below you can see the actor in the series "Trotsky".
Let us dwell in more detail on the most outstanding works of the actor, collected in chronological order.
"The night Watch"
This picture, released in 2004 and based on Sergei Lukyanenko’s mystical novel of the same name, "made a lot of noise and made so many viewers, hitherto unfamiliar with the literary principle of The Night Watch, rush to bookstores in search of a trilogy about the adventures of the" other " Anton Gorodetsky, rushing between the forces of darkness and light.
Having become one of the first films with Konstantin Khabensky in the title role, in which the actor tried on a guise that was completely unusual for himself and the audience, accustomed to his role as honest operatives from the series, this picture, in addition to an interesting plot, also stood out and was completely revolutionary for those years of special effects. The actor, however, perfectly and perfectly reliably played the main character Anton Gorodetsky, honestly and fearlessly doing his job of maintaining the balance between evil and good in all dimensions of planet Earth, so that it would not collapse into hell of catastrophes, wars and human tragedies.
Admiral
The next of the outstanding films with Konstantin Khabensky in the lead role was the historical drama "Admiral", released in 2008, and talking about the incredibly difficult period of 1916-1920. During which the collapse of the Russian empire took place, against the backdrop of the outbreak of the love story of Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak, who was the Supreme Ruler of Russia and the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army of those years, and Anna Timireva, an artist and poetess who became his common-law wife.
Konstantin Khabensky in the role of Kolchak is absolutely perfect, thanks to the true nature of nobility in him, which distinguishes the actor in almost all roles, and is his peculiar invisible artistic highlight.
Also, one cannot fail to note the magnificent work of costume designers and film operators, thanks to which Admiral has become a very atmospheric, majestic and beautiful painting.
"Frills"
In 2011, of all the films starring Konstantin Khabensky, I want to single out the comedy melodrama “Freaks”, in which the actor’s screen partners were the famous model and film actress Mila Jovovich and the famous TV presenter Ivan Urgant.
In this picture, the studied actor got the image of Glory Kolotilov, an ingenuous teacher from an ordinary school in a small seaside town with the amazing name Palchiki, who dreams of becoming a famous writer and who came to conquer Moscow with his manuscript. However, instead of the literary field, the hero of Konstantin Khabensky unexpectedly for himself conquered the beautiful Nadia. But this is bad luck - Fingers do not want to let Slavik go, and in a series of their ongoing circumstances, they do not give Slavik any opportunity to marry this girl.
According to many viewers, this lyrical and kind comedy is one of the best in the genre in recent years. Her brilliant cast recreated on the screen a wonderful and bright film that looks easy and in the same breath.
"Geographer drank the globe"
In 2013, it was the turn of one of the most prominent films with Konstantin Khabensky in the title role - the drama "Geographer drank the globe", based on the novel by Alexey Ivanov. The actor plays a certified biologist Viktor Sluzhkin, with the advent of the 90s who turned out to be useless to unemployed people, which is why he gradually gets drunk. In order not to mess with his wife, demanding that he finally become the breadwinner in the family, the hero of Khabensky got a regular geography teacher in a regular Perm school.
The struggle that began with the students, having gone through many trials with a joint rafting on the river, gradually develops into respect and friendship. Konstantin Khabensky literally lives in the frame. He is a real, tired and slightly tipsy hero, just living one by one every day of his life.
"Method"
The series “Method”, released in 2015, instantly became a cult in Russia. He is an extremely dark, bloody and exciting story about maniacs. Exactly so, in the plural and without antagonists, on which, by all logic, the role of fighters with these killers and rapists should be laid. Maniacs in this series is all. And if someone is still a normal person, then after talking with Rodion Viktorovich Meglin, the most difficult role of which was brilliantly played by Konstantin Khabensky, he or she will soon be sure to join them. So maniacs are arranged - in order to understand and eliminate them you yourself need to be the same.
Hero of Khabensky Rodion Meglin is one of the most mysterious and extraordinary personalities in Russian cinema. His method of work is his own cross, and he does not at all share the enthusiasm of his new workmate Yeseni ...
Selfie
The unique film of Konstantin Khabensky 2017 "Selfie" is one of the most misunderstood and underrated paintings of the actor. This is a dramatic thriller with elements of mysticism, the essence of the plot of which is that the hero - writer and TV presenter Vladimir Bogdanov one day encounters his double, whom he himself created by the power of his mind. However, where are the guarantees that he himself is not a double, and then the “second self” that suddenly appeared from nowhere is actually the true Vladimir Bogdanov?
Selfie divides its viewers into exactly two camps. Some people like him madly, while others pour mud on him. One way or another, but the film, completely unlike any picture of modern Russian cinema, has sounded enough and declared itself. And those who scold him today may perhaps someday rethink and understand him.
Sobibor
The final picture of our short film review today with actor Konstantin Khabensky in the title role was his directorial debut, the military drama Sobibor, which premiered in May 2018. The film tells the terrible story of the rebellion raised by the prisoners of the Polish fascist concentration camp "Sobibor" in October 1943 under the leadership of the captive lieutenant of the Red Army Alexander Aronovich Pechersky, whose role was played by Khabensky.
The film is based on real events of those years, described in detail in the literary work of Ilya Vasiliev. The picture itself is a peculiar hymn to the memory of millions of prisoners of the "death camps" destroyed by the Nazis. The very story of the uprising in Sobibor is the only successful example of riot in concentration camps in the history of World War II, as a result of which hundreds of prisoners were able to save their lives ...