Acting
Valentin Gaft
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
Fuse
1962
The Life of Klim Samgin
1988
The Master and Margarita
2005
Nine Unknowns
2006
10 самых...
2016
The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
2011
Olga Sergeevna
1975
Visit to the Minotaur
1987
On the Other Side of the Wolves
2002
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
1980
Morpekhi
2011
Мастер и Маргарита
2006
12
2007
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
For the Rest of My Life
1975
Magicians
1982
Ночные забавы
1993
Koroli i kapusta
1979
Dombey & Son
1974
Islands in the Stream
1978
Бесприданница
1974
Moscow, My Love
1974
The Master and Margarita
2011
Сыщик с плохим характером
2001
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
1987
Wings
2012
Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
2003
Intervention
1968
The Dog in Boots
1981
The Book of Masters
2009
The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
1989
About the Cat...
1987
The Garage
1979
The Scoundrel
2017
Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
1973