Valentin Gaft
Acting · Born 1935-09-02 · age 85 at death · 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 -----
Titles
12
The Garage
The Master and Margarita
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
Magicians
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
The Book of Masters
The Dog in Boots
Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
The Master and Margarita
Promised Heaven
Wings
Intervention
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Sympathy Seeker
Night Fun
Lost in Siberia
Encore, Once More Encore!
Tender Age
Old Hags
Vertical Races
If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
Visiting the Minotaur
Normandy - Neman
A Ballad of Love
The Visit
My Dearly Beloved Detective
Moscow, My Love
Daylight Train
An Almost Funny Story
Through Main Street with an Orchestra
The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
Esop
Kings of Crime
Ivan and Marya
Aleksa Dundic
Murder on Dante Street
Visit to the Minotaur
The Life of Klim Samgin
Fuse
Mister Perrichon's Trip
For the Rest of My Life
I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
About the Cat...
Milky Way
The Black Hen, or Living Underground
Poet
Russian Souvenir
Cabbages and Kings
Year of a Calf
Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
The Golden Fleece
The Centaurs
Contract of the Century
New Girl
Family Happiness
The Night at 14th Parallel
Nine Unknowns
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)