Alexander Khvylya

Soviet actor Alexander Khvylya in the 1946 film "The Liberated Land"

Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya (born Bressem, Russian: Александр Леопольдович Хвыля, Ukrainian: Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля, Oleksandr Leopoldovich Khvylya; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Soviet theater and film actor who played in The Diamond Arm, , , and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963).^[1]

Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich Bressem.^[1] Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast.

Career[]

In 1922 he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio. Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kiev. From 1934 until the German invasion of WWII, he worked in the Kharkiv Drama Theater of Shevchenko. Later, Khvylia relocated to Moscow, where he worked in the State theater of a cinema-actor.

Plays[]

• Dictatorship (Ivan Mykytenko) as Husak
• Perish of squadron (Oleksandr Korniychuk) as Baltiyets
• The Storm (Alexander Ostrovsky) as Kudryash

others

Selected Movies[]

• 1932 Ivan (Alexander Dovzhenko) as Orator (first role in movies)
• 1938 Karmeliuk (Georgiy Tasin) as Karmeliuk
• 1941 Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Ihor Savchenko) as Kobzar
• 1942 Oleksandr Parkhomenko (Leonid Lukov) as Parkhomenko
• 1946 The Liberated Earth
• 1946 The Vow as Semyon Budyonny
• 1948 Red Necktie as Vishnyakov
• 1948 The Young Guard (Sergei Gerasimov) as Shulga (his scenes later were cut out)^[2][3]
• 1949 Konstantin Zaslonov as Secretary of Raion Committee (Stalin Prize, 1950)
• 1949 Fairy Tales of Kuban (Ivan Pyryev) as Denis Koren
• 1951 Taras Shevchenko (Ihor Savchenko) as Mr. Barabash
• 1952 as the Head
• 1958 Over Tissa as Gromada, general of the border guards
• 1961 Evenings at a khutir near Dykanka (Aleksandr Rou) as Chub
• 1962 Queen of the Gas Station as Priest, the bus passenger
• 1964 Jack Frost (Aleksandr Rou) as Jack Frost
• 1968 The Diamond Arm (Leonid Gaidai) as Boris Savelyevich
• The end of Chyrva Kozyr as Chyrva
• Secretary of the Oblast Committee as Sukhodolov

others

See also[]

• Gammalsvenskby

References[]

External links[]

• Encyclopedia of Ukraine
• The same Parkhomenko. Rabochaya Gazeta February 21, 2009 (in Russian)
• Profile at Kulichki.com (in Russian)
• Alexander Khvylya at IMDb