Valentin Gaft
Biography
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
2018
as himself
The Scoundrel
2017
Четвертый
2016
Milky Way
2016
Breaking The Vicious Circle
2014
The Story of an Old Woman
2014
Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013
Iron Mountain
2013
as Preobrazhensky
Fiery River
2013
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Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения
2013
as Self
Wings
2012
as Byvaly (Voice)
The Master and Margarita
2011
as Woland
One Day of Zhora Vladimov
2011
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Равняется одному Гафту
2010
as Self
Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010
as Pimen
Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком
2010
The Music of Life
2009
as Self (archive footage)
The Book of Masters
2009
as Magic mirror
New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
2008
12
2007
as juror #4
The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
2007
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007
as политтехнолог Борис Глебович
Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
2003
as Oleh Kostiantynovych
Watch Without Hands
2000