{{Short description|Soviet actor}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata|fetchwikidata=ALL |native_name=Александр Хвыля |honorific_suffix={{tooltip|PARSFSR|People's Artist of RSFSR}}}} '''Alexander Leopoldovich Khvylya''' (born '''Bressem''', {{langx|ru|Александр Леопольдович Хвыля}}, {{langx|uk|Олександр Леопольдович Хвиля|Oleksandr Leopoldovych Khvylya}}; 15 July 1905 – 17 October 1976) was a Ukrainian Soviet theater and film actor who played in ''The Diamond Arm'', ''The End of Chyrva Kozyr'', ''Bohdan Khmelnytsky'', and others. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR (23 October 1963).<ref name="kino-teatr.ru">[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/4613/bio/ Александр Леопольдович Хвыля: биография ]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606101215/http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/acter/m/sov/4613/bio/|date=2016-06-06}}</ref>
Khvylya was born in the Swedish colony in the village of Oleksandro-Shultyne (Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire) to Swedish parents as Alexander Leopoldovich '''Bressem'''.<ref name="kino-teatr.ru"/> Today the village is part of the Ivanopil rural community in Kostiantynivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Александр Хвыля: биография и роли|url=https://www.domkino.tv/persons/3594 |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=domkino.tv}}</ref>
==Career== In 1922, he graduated from the Vorovsky Drama Studio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Вылитый Пархоменко |url=http://rg.kiev.ua/page5/article13670/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307104727/http://rg.kiev.ua/page5/article13670/ |archive-date=2009-03-07 |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=rg.kiev.ua}}</ref> Khvylya worked in the Zankovetska Music-Drama Theater from 1924 through 1926, then in Berezil that just relocated to Kharkiv from Kyiv. From 1934 until the German invasion of World War II, 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 == 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'' as Kostenko * 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)<ref>[http://www.izvestia.ru/person/article3121506/?print Actress Inna Makarova, about the movie "The Young Guard": Stalin said: "Shootings to continue"] ''Izvestiya''</ref><ref>[http://hronograf.narod.ru/14/roli.htm 350. Dangerous roles] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930073335/http://hronograf.narod.ru/14/roli.htm |date=2009-09-30 }} ''Chronographъ''</ref> * 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 ''May Nights'' 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
==See also== * Gammalsvenskby
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/ Encyclopedia of Ukraine] * [http://rg.kiev.ua/page5/article13670/ The same Parkhomenko. Rabochaya Gazeta February 21, 2009] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120714224124/http://rg.kiev.ua/page5/article13670/ |date=July 14, 2012 }} {{in lang|ru}} * [http://akter.kulichki.com/publ/hvylya.htm Profile at Kulichki.com] {{in lang|ru}} * {{IMDb name|0452062}}
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