They say that he became an actor thanks to the great Messing - he supposedly hypnotized the admissions committee so that Boris would be accepted into the school.
It is difficult to believe the actor’s tales, however, the fact that Boris Khmelnytsky, who was stuttering with excitement, could have entered the Pike the first time, is also difficult to believe. However, a fact is a fact - he is a graduate of this school.
The future artist and composer was born in 1940 in the Far East. A year later, the war began, and his parents sent him and his sister away from the city, in the taiga to his grandfather. Later, the actor told what beauty and greatness there. Nature made a big impression on him.
After the war, a journey began with parents throughout Russia, because Boris’s father was a military man, he worked in the House of Officers. At that time, the House of Officers was a creative party, the center of culture of any city, and little Boris was almost always there. This prompted the idea of becoming an actor.
However, he stuttered from childhood, and this could prevent a dream come true. By adolescence, stuttering became weaker, but with excitement again manifested itself strongly. Nevertheless, Khmelnitsky did not abandon his dream, and in order to prepare himself for an acting career, he went to a music school - he believed that musical education was necessary for the artist.
Then there was a mysterious admission to Pike, and already in his third year Boris played in the Taganka Theater at the invitation of Lyubimov. And after graduation, he was enrolled in the troupe as a full-fledged actor, and served in the theater for 23 years - a considerable period.
Start a movie career
This happened in 1966, when the director Osyka saw Khmelnitsky in the play, and offered him the role of a soldier in the film "Whoever returns will be beaten." Then there were roles in the films "War and Peace" and "Sofia Perovskaya". And the next film was already significant for Khmelnitsky, because it was the main role of the laborer Petro in the film "Evening on the Eve of Ivan Kupal", then he was 28 years old.
However, when the name of Boris Khmelnitsky sounds, everyone invariably recalls one of his most remarkable roles - Robin Hood in the film "Arrows of Robin Hood." He so organically blended into this role, into the film, into the whole environment, that it is already difficult to imagine another actor in this role.
Often an actor with a bright expressive appearance received supporting roles, but this did not bother him at all. On the contrary, he said that often a small role is much more interesting for an actor.
He also often played villains, but knew how to give them some elusive charm, as if convincing the viewer that in life there is no only black and white - in every negative character there is a share of romance, adventure and charm. Khmelnitsky did it superbly.
Boris Alekseevich had a long-standing friendship with Vladimir Vysotsky, and after the death of the poet, it was Khmelnitsky who organized the annual evening in memory of Vysotsky, at which he himself gave concerts. And even when he became very ill, he brought to an end the evening in memory of Vysotsky in honor of his 70th birthday.
On the threshold of a new century, Khmelnitsky starred a little, because he did not like TV shows, and there were no roles in films. His last work is Ataman Bearded in the film "Taras Bulba" (2009).
