Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich is one of those actors who, even at the age of “over eighty”, does not leave their favorite work. And this is despite the fact that he is always offered the roles of completely non-positive characters, exploiting his external data. But the actor Konstantin Zheldin, whose biography will be set out in the article, is not upset, because without a movie he cannot imagine his life.
The beginning of life
Little Kostya was born on the fifth day of October 1933 in Moscow. At birth, his last name was Schwabauer. About his childhood, almost nothing is known. He was only seven when the war broke out. It is clear that the next few years were very difficult, like millions of Soviet children and adults.
He graduated from Pike in 1961. For the next two years, the young actor took to the stage of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater (performances "Mother", "Crime and Punishment" and others, and already in the 66th he became part of the Taganka Theater troupe, where he served for almost 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 "Michman Panin" (directed by Mikhail Schweitzer). Then he was approved for the role of Baron von Lemke the second 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 Mikhail.
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 truth. For example, in the Front Without Flanks, Kurt Schmidt brilliantly succeeded, and in the Adjutant of His Excellency Victor Osipov, the White Guard counterintelligence captain. But the actor’s calling card was Wilhelm Holtoff, Obersturmbannführer. This 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 became a member of the troupe of the theater "Near the House of Stanislavsky." Here his talent opened from a new, unexpected side. This is especially evident in the play on the resurrection of Lazarus, where he got the role of investigator Porfiry Petrovich. It was a non-standard production, in which it seemed to be incompatible. The result was a very interesting performance, in which there were many dramatic and comedic scenes.
And there were Ferapont in “Three Sisters,” Actor in “Forgetting or Do Not Live More,” Adam Falter in “World's End”.
Wulf or Kolchin?
It is impossible not to dwell in detail on one of perhaps the best works of the actor. One of the roles that Konstantin Borisovich Zheldin played at a fairly venerable age and is known to him by young viewers is the role of the Nazi, German scientist Vladlen Kolchin (or what he was called from birth - Ritter Wolfe) in the series Closed School. The story of the elite boarding school "Logos", in which only children of wealthy people study or extremely gifted adolescents. The arrival of Avdeev’s brother and sister, Andrei and Nadi, marked the beginning of a chain of strange events.
Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich, whose photo has appeared 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 was very fond of his family - 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 creating the first batch, he drew attention to the fact that the virus is transmitted exclusively through the blood. Once his wife, having entered the laboratory, touched the tubes with the virus with her hand. They crashed. Lizhen wounded her hand and became infected. Since she was pregnant at that moment, their daughter was born already infected. This was the impetus for the fact that Wulf began to work on a cure for this terrible virus.
Ingrid, Natasha, Nadia ...
When the Third Reich collapsed, Wulf and six other associate scientists moved to the USSR. Now Wolfe had a new name - Vladlen Petrovich Kolchin. The NKVD allocated the estate of the Count to the laboratory. It was there that the Nazis settled, developing and improving the virus.
Merciless to others, Wulf and many years later could not forget his daughter. 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 to be so much like his daughter. Natasha, as the girl was named after the adoption, turns out to be one of those on whom Wulf conducts his experiments, without losing hope of saving his own daughter.
Despite his, so to speak, not very human qualities, Ritter is really a brilliant scientist. He manages to make a vaccine and improve the virus itself. He even abducts his granddaughter Nadia, that is, Natasha’s daughter, who, like two drops of water, looks like Ingrid. Wulf is ready to kill the girl in order to revive his daughter by transfusing her blood from Nadia. But he does not succeed: Wulf dies in the explosion of the dungeon of the estate, which was arranged by one of his assistants - Konstantin Voitevich (or Helmut). All that remains is the Dominus clone, which lies in the capsule ...
New century in creativity
Zheldin Konstantin Borisovich with the advent of the new century opened a second wind. If he previously starred a little, and in the difficult nineties disappeared from the screens, in old age the actor became in demand. The audience, as it were, rediscovered for themselves this talented person. The beginning was laid by 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 series.
In the new century, the characters of the actor became criminal elements that replaced the Nazis from the century of the past. They were a thief in law from Maryina Roscha, a bandit Stekhel from Liquidation, a crime boss from Private Order.
Here he is, Zheldin Constantine (actor). His personal life was never in the public domain. He tried to isolate her from everyone, because he was still convinced that life was personal and personal, so as not to spread about her. Konstantin Borisovich believes that viewers should see only his work.