
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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Acting (126 movies)

12
2007

Cement
1974

The Circus Boy
1980

Sky in Diamonds
1999

The Magic Skin
1975

Saturday and Sunday
1982

Three Years
1980

Expensive Pleasure
1988

Футболист
1991

Magicians
1982

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
1980

Like Cat and Dog
1973

Promised Heaven
1991

The Master and Margarita
1994

The Holiday of Disobedience
1977

Postman's Tale
1978

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
2010

Intervention
1987

Cabbages and Kings
1979

The Pickwick Papers
1972

Year of a Calf
1986

The Amazing Boy
1971

Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
1988

The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
1989

About the Cat...
1987

I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
1994

The Garage
1979

Old Hags
2000

Daylight Train
1976

The Terrorist
1991

The Career of Arturo Ui
1996

A Ballad of Love
1970

Mister Perrichon's Trip
1990

Esop
1981

Night Fun
1991

The Visit
1989

Kings of Crime
1988

Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
2007

Sympathy Seeker
1997

New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
2008

Lost in Siberia
1991

Eight Days of Hope
1984

Wings
2012

Forgotten Tune for the Flute
1987

Long-Haired Wonder
1974

Encore, Once More Encore!
1992

The Story of an Old Woman
2013

An Almost Funny Story
1977

Six Degrees of Celebration 3
2013

Fight in a Blizzard
1978

Tender Age
2000

Vertical Races
1982

The Book of Masters
2009

Ivan and Marya
1975

Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
1975

Visiting the Minotaur
1987

Lot
1974

Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
1984

The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
1989

Today and Tomorrow
1980

The Golden Fleece
1977

Olga Sergeevna
1975

Aleksa Dundic
1958

Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
1977

Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
2003

My Dearly Beloved Detective
1986

Hurry to Do Good
1980

The Centaurs
1979

The Morning Round
1980

Mitya
1967

The Dog in Boots
1981

Through Main Street with an Orchestra
1986

Moscow, My Love
1974

We, The Russian People
1966

If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
1982

Normandy - Neman
1960

Milky Way
2016

Allow Take-Off!
1971

Murder on Dante Street
1956

The Black Hen, or Living Underground
1981

The Scoundrel
2017

Iron Mountain
2013

Fiery River
2013

Breaking The Vicious Circle
2014

Sergeev Seeking Sergeev
1974

Watch Without Hands
2000

Wait For Me, Anna
1969

Poet
1956

Contract of the Century
1985

For the Rest of My Life
1975

Story of an Unknown Actor
1976

The Suicide
1990

An Ordinary History
1970

Customs
1982

Fouetté
1986

The First Courier
1968

New Girl
1969

Time to Fly
1987

From Lopatin's Notes
1975

Girl Without Dowry
1974
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Сон Гафта, пересказанный Виктюком | 2010 | Screenplay |