Valentin Gaft
Birthday: 1935-09-02
Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
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. ----- Content From 12 Presskit http://www.sonyclassics.com/12/externalLoads/12_presskit.pdf -----
Movies
12
A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men mus...
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The Circus Boy
This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of...
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Sky in Diamonds
An orphan, left at a children’s home in a cardboard box, was named Anton Pavlovich Chekhov because h...
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The Magic Skin
Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfill...
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Three Years
Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev dec...
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Expensive Pleasure
A savvy aeronautical engineer, unable to find a use for his talent in the design bureau, finds a job...
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Футболист
Oleg Norov, the coach of a soccer team, realizes that the matches are held according to the scheme o...
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Magicians
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina,...
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue...
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Promised Heaven
In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They bu...
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The Master and Margarita
The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Th...
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The Holiday of Disobedience
About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reforme...
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of ...
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Intervention
The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are se...
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Cabbages and Kings
Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled...
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The Pickwick Papers
A two-part television play based on the novel by Charles Dickens featuring songs by poet David Samoy...
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Year of a Calf
The young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to rad...
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The Amazing Boy
After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in...
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Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
She's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her happ...
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrent...
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I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
The hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone....
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The Garage
An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A spec...
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Old Hags
Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia....
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Daylight Train
Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married....
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The Terrorist
A man invites a soaking wet under the rain young girl to his house not suspecting that her visit is ...
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The Career of Arturo Ui
When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - h...
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A Ballad of Love
Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her ...
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Mister Perrichon's Trip
Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeois...
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Esop
This is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and about ...
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Night Fun
A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person....
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The Visit
In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and th...
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Kings of Crime
This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the...
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
The author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original. Festive me...
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Sympathy Seeker
A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could n...
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New Adventures of Babka Ezhka
A sequel of the story about a little girl raised in a magical forest by fairy-tale characters: Baba-...
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Lost in Siberia
The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archae...
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Wings
In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to the...
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of...
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Encore, Once More Encore!
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, ...
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The Story of an Old Woman
The Story of an Old Woman was filmed in one shot without any cutting or pasting. Annotation from aut...
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An Almost Funny Story
The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life......
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Six Degrees of Celebration 3
And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year....
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Fight in a Blizzard
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Tender Age
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into a...
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Vertical Races
A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal....
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The Book of Masters
A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a fi...
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Ivan and Marya
Between the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course, takes...
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Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
A funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt"....
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Visiting the Minotaur
The detective story is based on the search for Antonio Stradivari's missing violin. This is one stor...
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Monsieur Lenoir, Who...
After Monsieur Lenoir commits a terrible crime, his family members gather together to discuss their ...
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogu...
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Today and Tomorrow
The film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the manager...
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The Golden Fleece
Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean....
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Aleksa Dundic
Life and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a legend ...
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Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
A young girl traumatized by her mother death is becoming an actress....
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Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
The story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the successful 35...
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My Dearly Beloved Detective
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Hurry to Do Good
The film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in someone el...
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The Centaurs
A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: black...
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The Morning Round
Doctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental qualities ...
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Mitya
The chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an important ...
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The Dog in Boots
The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable - tha...
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
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Moscow, My Love
A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater...
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We, The Russian People
Based on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia, hunted by...
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Normandy - Neman
A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor ...
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Allow Take-Off!
A new pilot arrives to a far away airport forcing the old veteran to retire....
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Murder on Dante Street
A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII....
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The Black Hen, or Living Underground
At a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was accustom...
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The Scoundrel
Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where ...
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Iron Mountain
The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarba...
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Fiery River
The second part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev's student years...
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Breaking The Vicious Circle
The film tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev who went into politics and made efforts to improve the exi...
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Sergeev Seeking Sergeev
After researcher Yuri Sergeev fails to report to work, local police officer Ilya Sergeev opens an in...
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Watch Without Hands
A major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective and a...
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Poet
Soviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local poet he...
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Contract of the Century
In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between...
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Story of an Unknown Actor
Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial the...
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The Suicide
As Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop loo...
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An Ordinary History
A young provincial, Aleksander Aduev, moves to St. Petersburg to live with his pragmatic uncle, wher...
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Customs
When vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an inves...
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Fouetté
Prima-ballerina Elena Knyazeva prepares for her performance on the anniversary jubilee for the theat...
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The First Courier
The beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of Russian So...
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The Chosen Ones
The film is based on a dialogue between young and older generations about life, profession, fame, lo...
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Time to Fly
Nothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However, according ...
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From Lopatin's Notes
Based on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent alm...
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Girl Without Dowry
Unlike her sisters, Larisa Ogudolova refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy old ...
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Balalaykin and K
The performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov....
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Dombey & Son
The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue hi...
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Players
The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant sp...
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The Man from the Other Side
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase loc...
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Tanya
The story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet Union. ...
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
In Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir regent, ...
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Widower's Houses
Two friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter Blanche o...
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
The nobleman des Grieux falls in love with the mysterious and attractive girl of humble origin Manon...
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Romeo and Juliet
This TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual productio...
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Family Happiness
The film comprises four novellas: (1) “From Boredom”. A wealthy matron, bored with life, embarks on...
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The Road to Rübezahl
The German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought...
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Russian Souvenir
The end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a thu...
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I want to go to America
The spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of riva...
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One Day of Zhora Vladimov
The turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human rights ac...
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Islands in the Stream
TV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel....
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Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
Episodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the con...
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Temptation
The film takes place in Budapest in the 1920s. The teenage Rózsa Béla, the son of a washing-woman an...
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The Music of Life
Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work....
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The Husband, the Wife and the Lover
Based on the short story by F.M. Dostoevsky "The Eternal Husband", the comedy by I.S. Turgenev "The ...
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Подводная лодка
The American submarine is rushing to the intended target, from where the U.S. ballistic missiles are...
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The Magic Bells
A good tale about the inhabitants of a magical city who were shamelessly robbed by the villain Mirac...
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The Star Hour
Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve o...
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov)....
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