Valentin Gaft

Valentin Gaft (85)

1935-09-02 - 2020-12-12 | Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

Valentin Yosifovich Gaft was born on September 2, 1935 to Ukrainian parents recently relocated to Moscow. Gaft entered the Moscow Theater School in 1953 at age 18 and made his film debut three years later in Mikhail Romm’s “Murder on Dante Street”. Over a half century of performing Valentine Gaft has been associated with the Mossovet and Leninsky Komsomol Theater troupes and the Sovremennik Theater which Gaft joined in 1969 and where he continues to work to this day. Gaft was named a People’s Artist of the Soviet Union in 1984 and has authored series of highly acidic epigrams satirizing members of the Russian film and theater communities. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----

On Movies

  • The Scoundrel
  • Breaking The Vicious Circle
  • Six Degrees of Celebration 3
  • Iron Mountain
  • Fiery River
  • The Story of an Old Woman
  • Wings
  • Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
  • The Book of Masters
  • New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
  • 12
  • The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
  • Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
  • Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
  • Watch Without Hands
  • Tender Age
  • Old Hags
  • Sky in Diamonds
  • Sympathy Seeker
  • The Career of Arturo Ui
  • The Master and Margarita
  • I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
  • I want to go to America
  • Encore, Once More Encore!
  • The Terrorist
  • Футболист
  • Lost in Siberia
  • Promised Heaven
  • Night Fun
  • Mister Perrichon's Trip
  • The Suicide
  • The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
  • The Visit
  • The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
  • Expensive Pleasure
  • Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
  • Kings of Crime
  • Visiting the Minotaur
  • Forgotten Tune for the Flute
  • The Magic Bells
  • About the Cat...
  • Time to Fly
  • Year of a Calf
  • My Dearly Beloved Detective
  • Fouetté
  • Through Main Street with an Orchestra
  • Contract of the Century
  • Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • Magicians
  • If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
  • Customs
  • Vertical Races
  • The Dog in Boots
  • The Black Hen, or Living Underground
  • Esop
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • The Morning Round
  • Today and Tomorrow
  • The Circus Boy
  • Three Years
  • Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
  • Hurry to Do Good
  • The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
  • The Garage
  • Cabbages and Kings
  • The Centaurs
  • Islands in the Stream
  • Players
  • Postman's Tale
  • An Almost Funny Story
  • Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
  • The Golden Fleece
  • The Holiday of Disobedience
  • Temptation
  • Daylight Train
  • Story of an Unknown Actor
  • Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
  • Widower's Houses
  • The Magic Skin
  • Ivan and Marya
  • From Lopatin's Notes
  • Girl Without Dowry
  • Tanya
  • Cement
  • Moscow, My Love
  • Dombey & Son
  • Long-Haired Wonder
  • Lot
  • Sergeev Seeking Sergeev
  • Balalaykin and K
  • Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
  • The Man from the Other Side
  • The Pickwick Papers
  • Allow Take-Off!
  • The Road to Rübezahl
  • The Amazing Boy
  • An Ordinary History
  • Solo
  • Family Happiness
  • A Ballad of Love
  • Wait For Me, Anna
  • New Girl
  • The First Courier
  • Mitya
  • We, The Russian People
  • Подводная лодка
  • Russian Souvenir
  • Normandy - Neman
  • Aleksa Dundic
  • Poet
  • Murder on Dante Street

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