Vladimir Zeldin

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Vladimir Zeldin
Birthday	Wednesday, February 10, 1915
Birthplace	Russia
Occupation	Actor

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Zel’din, Vladimir Mikhailovich

Born Feb. 15 (28), 1915, in Moscow. Soviet Russian actor. People’s Artist of the USSR (1975).

In 1935, Zel’din graduated from the theatrical school of the Theater of the Moscow Oblast Council of Trade Unions; he later performed with the company. From 1938 to 1941 and from 1943 to 1945 he appeared at the Moscow Transport Theater, and in 1945 he joined the Central Theater of the Red Army (now the Theater of the Soviet Army). His roles have included Aldemaro in Lope de Vega’s The Dancing Master, Kokhta in Baratashvili’s The Dragonfly, Stavridi in Lavrenev’s Song of the Black Sea Sailors, and Corrado in De Filippo’s My Family. He has also appeared in motion pictures, for example, as Musaib in Swineherd and Shepherd (They Met in Moscow), Professor Serebriakov in Uncle Vanya, and Bomelii in the film version of the opera The Tsar’s Bride.

References in periodicals archive ?

Alodia Martin-Martinez's "La Edad Media nunca existio: Lectura quijotesca de la dorada epoca de las caballerias" examines Don Quixote's firm commitment to the notion that the Middles Ages represented a long-lost "Golden Age," and argues that such a positive view of the premodern world belies its reputation as the "Dark Ages." Turning to Cervantes's impact on future writers and thinkers, Veronika Ryjik's '"El ultimo don Quijote': Vladimir Zeldin y la quijotizacion de la intelligentsia teatral rusa" looks at a 2004 Russian adaptation of Dale Wasserman's Man of La Mancha in the specific context of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian reception of Cervantes's seventeenth-century work.

Editor's Note

This article looks at a 2004 adaptation of the musical Man of La Mancha at the Moscow Army Theater, focusing specifically on the acting career of Vladimir Zeldin, who is celebrated as "the Don Quixote of the Russian Stage." Zeldin's identification with Cervantes's hero is analyzed within the broader context of the novel's reception in Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Dentro de este marco, en las siguientes paginas, exploraremos uno de los avatares rusos mas recientes del hidalgo cervantino, encarnado en el actor moscovita Vladimir Zeldin, que murio en 2016 con casi 102 anos y actuo hasta practicamente el ultimo dia de su vida.

Esta impresion se refuerza por el hecho de que Zeldin es el unico que trabaja sin suplentes: "el montaje tiene dos elencos pero solo un Don Quijote, uno solo para todos los tiempos" (Vladimir Zeldin).

Es el verdadero Hombre de La Mancha porque hacer bien, creo, es la cualidad central de su caracter" (Vladimir Zeldin).

El critico anade: "Si pudieramos quitar del escenario todas las tonterias que lo rodean, Vladimir Zeldin, el solo, contaria, representaria y bailaria la historia de Don Quijote mucho mejor" ("Spektakl" s.

"Spektakl pechalnogo obraza: Akter Vladimir Zeldin spas rezhissiora Yuliya Gusmana [El montaje de la Triste Figura: El actor Vladimir Zeldin salva al director Yuli Gusman]." Kommersant, i6 diciembre 2004.

"Segodnia ispolnilsia 91 god aktioru Vladimiru Zeldinu [Hoy el actor Vladimir Zeldin cumple 91 anos]." Kommersant, 10 febrero 2006: 22.

"95-letiye Vladimir Zeldin vstretil v tantse [Vladimir Zeldin cumplio 95 bailando]." Vecherniaya Moskva, 17 febrero 2010.

"Prazdnik starogo aktiora: Vladimir Zeldin sygral Don Kijota [La fiesta del viejo actor: Vladimir Zeldin representa a Don Quijote]." Vremia novostei, 17 diciembre 2004.

"Vladimir Zeldin vnov uchit tantsam [Vladimir Zeldin de nuevo ensena a danzar]." Radio Svoboda, 16 febrero 2010.

Vladimir Zeldin: Strasti don Kijota [Vladimir Zeldin: Las pasiones de Don Quijote].

"El ultimo don Quijote": Vladimir Zeldin y la quijotizacion de la intelligentsia teatral rusa