Boris Ilyich Seidenberg (russian: Бори́с Ильи́ч За́йденберг; 21 May 1929, Odesa, Soviet Union - 20 October 2000, Odesa, Ukraine) was a Soviet actor and a

Meritorious Artist Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic.

Biography

Seidenberg was interested in acting from an early age. Despite his family's objections, he went to study at the

Aleksander Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original ...

Theater and Art Academy in Tashkent. Though located in the remote Uzbek SSR, the academy's staff consisted of some of the Soviet Union's best dramatists, who moved in there from Moscow and Leningrad after being blacklisted as

rootless cosmopolitans Rootless cosmopolitan () was a pejorative Soviet epithet which referred mostly to Jewish intellectuals as an accusation of their lack of allegiance to the Soviet Union, especially during the antisemitic campaign of 1948–1953. This campaign ...

during Andrei Zhdanov's artistic purges. After graduating at 1950, Seidenberg joined the cast of the Alexander Pushkin Dramatical Theater in Magnitogorsk. After three years there, he began acting in the Bryansk Regional Theater. His work on the stage earned him the title

of the Russian SFSR on 1961. Seidenberg moved to the Odesa Russian Theater at 1962, where he performed a wide range of characters; his appearances as Mercutio in

Romeo and Juliet ''Romeo and Juliet'' is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetim ...

were especially praised by critics. He also depicted Cyrano de Bergerac, King Lear, Hamlet and many other Shakespearean protagonists. At 1964, Seidenberg directed his first play, an adaptation of ''Kennen Sie die Milchstraße?'' by . He later directed more than thirty stage productions, mainly in the Russian Theater but also in the Vasilko Musical-Dramatical Theater in Odesa. He also held the tenure of an associate professor in the municipal

Antonina Nezhdanova Antonina Vasilyevna Nezhdanova (russian: Антони́на Васи́льевна Нежда́нова, – 26 June 1950), was a Russian and Soviet coloratura soprano. Nezhdanova was born in , near Odesa, Ukraine, then in the Russian Empire. ...

Conservatory's opera department. Seidenberg continued directing and producing plays until his death. He made his debut on screen as cavalryman Emelyanov in the 1965 film ''Viper'', based on the 1928 eponymous novel by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The film was received positively and viewed by 34 million people, making it the seventh highest-grossing Soviet film of the year. Seidenberg appeared in more than forty films altogether.Boris Seidenberg on kino-teatr.ru.
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Partial filmography

*1965: '' The Viper'' - Dmitriy Yemelyanov *1967: ''Poisk'' - Nikolay Kuzmich Chebotar *1967: ''The Search'' *1967: ''Wedding bells'' *1968: ''Tikhaya Odessa'' - Komendant *1968: ''Sluchay iz sledstvennoy praktiki'' - Commander *1969: ''I'm His Betrothed'' - Innokentiy Nekrasov *1970: '' Liberation I: The Fire Bulge'' - Major Orlov *1970: '' Liberation II: Breakthrough'' - Major Orlov *1970: ''Krutoy gorizont'' - Kostenko *1971: '' Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow'' - Orlov *1971: ''Criminal Inspector'' - Yevgeniy Mironov - sledovatel prokuratory *1972: ''Insolence'' - Vosaglik Yozef *1972: ''Ofitser zapasa'' - Buzhor *1972: ''Petka v kosmose'' *1972: ''Lyogkaya voda'' - Ramazanov *1973: ''The Washington Correspondent'' (TV Movie) - Jeff Bradford *1973: ''More nashey nadezhdy'' - Stepan Pavlyuk *1973: ''Budni ugolovnogo rozyska'' - Yevgeniy Mironov - podpolkovnik *1973: ''The Great Battle'' - Major Orlov *1973: ''Zarubki na pamyat'' - Nikolay Zherdan *1974: ''Skvorets i Lira'' - Kringli *1974: ''Revenge'' *1975: ''Suse, liebe Suse'' - Boris *1975: ''Black Caravan'' - Garak *1975: ''Sleduyu svoim kursom'' - Sergey Mikhaylovich Eltsov (narrator) *1975: ''Chto s toboy proiskhodit'' - Lew Ivanovits *1975: ''Chyornyy karavan'' *1977: ''Svidetelstvo o bednosti'' - Direktor chasovogo zavoda (narrator, uncredited) *1979: ''Krepost'' - Zhuravlyov *1979: ''Vsyo reshayet mgnoveniye'' - Aleksandr Palinov, glavnyy trener sbornoy *1980: ''Deputatskiy chas'' *1981: ''Cherez Gobi i Khingan'' - General-leytenant *1981: ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn'' (TV Movie) *1983: ''Through the Gobi Desert and Xing'an'' *1985: ''Sopernitsy'' - Vasiliy Lashin *1985: ''The Temptation of Don Giovanni'' - Starejshina *1986: ''

Train Off Schedule ''Train Off Schedule'' (russian: Поезд вне расписания, Poezd vne raspisaniya) is a 1985 Soviet disaster film written and directed by Aleksandr Grishin. Plot The crew of diesel locomotive M62 receives the task to drive out the t ...

'' - Nachalnik zheleznoy dorogi *1986: ''Opponents'' *1987: ''Okhota na drakona'' *1987: ''Vash spetsialnyi korrespondent'' - Mihai Spinu *1991: ''Pokhorony na vtorom etazhe'' - Zaborin *1993: ''Ya sama'' - Prokuror *1998: ''Poyezd do Bruklina'' - Budko (final film role)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seidenberg, Boris 1929 births 2000 deaths Actors from Odesa Soviet male stage actors Soviet male film actors Soviet theatre directors Ukrainian theatre directors Honored Artists of the RSFSR Theatre people from Odesa