Valentin Gaft
Born: 1935-09-02
• 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.
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Filmography
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The Chosen Ones
The Scoundrel
Четвертый
Milky Way
Breaking The Vicious Circle
The Story of an Old Woman
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Iron Mountain
Fiery River
Wings
The Master and Margarita
One Day of Zhora Vladimov
No Image
Равняется одному Гафту
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
The Music of Life
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
House for the Rich
Tender Age
Old Hags
Sky in Diamonds
Sympathy Seeker
The Career of Arturo Ui
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
I want to go to America
Encore, Once More Encore!
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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
Intervention
The Magic Bells
About the Cat...
Time to Fly
Year of a Calf
My Dearly Beloved Detective
Fouetté
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
No Image
Перегон
Contract of the Century
Eight Days of Hope
Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
Romeo and Juliet
Magicians
If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
Customs
Vertical Races
Saturday and Sunday
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
Fight in a Blizzard
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
Olga Sergeevna
The Magic Skin
Ivan and Marya
For the Rest of My Life
From Lopatin's Notes
Girl Without Dowry
Tanya