Valentin Gaft

Acting

Valentin Gaft

Born 1935-09-02 · 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 -----

Acting credits

About the Cat... poster
6.7

The musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".

About the Cat...

1987

Encore, Once More Encore! poster
5.8

A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Encore, Once More Encore!

1992

Old Hags poster
4.8

Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.

Old Hags

2000

The Holiday of Disobedience poster
NR

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.

The Holiday of Disobedience

1977

Year of a Calf poster
5.3

The young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to radically change her life. Settling the head of a rural furniture store, she sold a cow, pigs, sheep, and even invited the sons of a music teacher from the city, violinist Valerian Sergeyevich, to her sons. Her husband Theodosius, a collective farm carpenter, is not able to reason with his wife, but at the same time he does not intend to put up with the new order. To Lyudmila Petrovna’s surprise, the music teacher, who had a taste for village life, also fell under the influence of Theodosius. Once, having seized children, the men fled home. With difficulty, Lyudmila Petrovna was able to restore the broken family peace, and the wife of Valerian Sergeyevich to return his husband home.

Year of a Calf

1986

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus poster
4.7

Epic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people of Russia while the Nazis are advancing. Russian officer Kotov, who miraculously survived the death sentence in Stalin's Purge, is now fighting in the front-lines. His daughter, Nadia, who survived a rape attempt by Nazi soldiers, is now a nurse risking her own life to save others. In the war-torn nation even former enemies are fighting together to defend their land. People stand up united for the sake of victory. Written by Steve Shelokhonov

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

2010

12 poster
6.6

A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men must unanimously decide the fate of a young Chechen accused of murdering his step-father, a Russian army officer. Consigned to a makeshift jury room in a school gymnasium, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

12

2007

The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants poster
8.0

The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people.

The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants

1989

No artwork available
NR

A film about the daily life of naval service, about an officer’s honor, and about true male friendship tested by dangerous voyages. Outside of their professional duties, the heroes sometimes find it harder to make a choice or reach the only right decision than they do on the ship, which is why only there do they feel “in their element.” Based on the novella “Tomorrow’s Worries” by Viktor Konetsky.

Run

1985

Six Degrees of Celebration 3 poster
6.1

And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

2013

The Star Hour poster
NR

Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.

The Star Hour

1973

Wings poster
3.8

In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to the disciples to aircraft leading figures, which are taken to prepare it for the competition. But Knight forget about classes, when the ears falls in love with a charming light aircraft lightning, not knowing what it is - an assistant cruel and evil Thunder fighter who wants to deal with the Knight. Would love to win the Knight Lightning? A time to destroy evil plans of Thunder? And most importantly - will the winner of the Knight airshow?

Wings

2012

The Scoundrel poster
10.0

Julia is beautiful, mysterious and... hopelessly lonely. She lives with her mother in a house where the cult of her late military father, a very harsh man and – apparently – a rare idiot, reigns supreme. None of the men Julia has met meets such a high standard. But mom is determined to get her daughter married. And then one day a handsome man in a military dress uniform appears in their family. The only trouble is, he's not exactly who they think he is... or not at all.

The Scoundrel

2017

Moscow, My Love poster
5.2

A young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. She achieves professional success, for the first time real love comes to her. However, the girl’s happiness was short-lived — a sudden illness of blood interferes in the fate of the dancer, like an echo of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, where her parents lived.

Moscow, My Love

1974

The Master and Margarita poster
5.5

The Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about Jesus and Pontius Pilate. The Moscow authorities are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. His assistant and muse, Margarita, tries to help the Master through the supernatural powers she got from the devil, Woland, who is visiting Moscow.

The Master and Margarita

2011

Murder on Dante Street poster
5.5

A story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.

Murder on Dante Street

1956

Intervention poster
5.7

The movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a Bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named Michel Voronov serves as a teacher to a rich woman's son, Zhen'ka.

Intervention

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Галина Волчек. Любовь и заблуждения

2013

Normandy - Neman poster
5.2

A certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne nor Vichy's orders decide to join the USSR. Once they have reached Moscow they resume training and form a squadron they call "Normandie". Reinforced in 1944, the squadron wins many victories. Following the acts of valor displayed by its pilots during the Battle of the Nieman River, it becomes the "Normandie-Niemen" squadron for the rest of times...

Normandy - Neman

1960

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? poster
NR

A film-play based on the play by Edward Albee (translated by Vitaly Vulf, Igor Kochnov).

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1992

The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin poster
5.1

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin

1989

Lost in Siberia poster
5.0

The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully sentenced to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia.

Lost in Siberia

1991

House for the Rich poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

House for the Rich

2000

Night Fun poster
6.5

A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.

Night Fun

1991

Behind the camera