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 -----
12
as Juror #4A loose remake of “12 Angry Men”, “12” is set in contemporary Moscow where 12 very different men...
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Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus
as Wise prisonerEpic film about WWII, a sequel to Utomlyonnye solntsem (1994). Evil Stalin is terrorizing people...
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Magicians
as Apollon Mitrofanovich SataneevIn a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona...
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Say a Word for the Poor Hussar
as Полковник ПокровскийThe small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces...
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The Garage
as SidorinAn automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A...
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The Book of Masters
as Volshebnoe ZerkaloA beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in...
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Six Degrees of Celebration 3
as uncreditedAnd again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.
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Wings
as Byvaly (Voice)In the weeks leading up to the grand air show young Su-27 fighter by the name of Knight comes to...
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Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
as Brasset, LackeyA funny comedy based on famous Brandon Thomas' play "Charley's Aunt".
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Tender Age
as Саледон старший (известный скульптор-диссидент)A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves...
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Mister Perrichon's Trip
as uncreditedMonsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the...
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The Dog in Boots
as The Noble (voice) / Благородный (Атос)The story about an enamored singing dog who isn't thoroughbred - that's a minus, but honorable -...
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The Master and Margarita
as WolandMaster is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and...
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Promised Heaven
as PresidentIn the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally....
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Night Fun
as ЕзеповA night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.
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Family Happiness
as uncreditedOmnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
as ДжасперIn Closterham, Edwin Drood and Rose Button confront his uncle John Jasper, the church choir...
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Vertical Races
as Алексей Дедушкин «Батон» (вор-рецидивист)A drama about a psychological duel between a police detective and career criminal.
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Encore, Once More Encore!
as Fyodor Vasilyevich VinogradovA drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison...
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
as KostyaVasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis....
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My Dearly Beloved Detective
as Inspector LesterThe conceit is that Sherlock Holmes is, as in reality, a fictional creation of Arthur Conan...
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Cabbages and Kings
as Frank GoodwinEverything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase...
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Moscow, My Love
as choreographerA young talented dancer from Japan is invited to study ballet art at a school at the Bolshoi...
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The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin
as BeriyaA dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin,...
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Watch Without Hands
as uncreditedA major politician and businessman was killed. His widow, with the help of a private detective...
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Balalaykin and K
as uncreditedThe performance of the Sovremennik Theater directed by G. A. Tovstonogov.
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Old Hags
as GeneralFour old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
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Ivan and Marya
as казначейBetween the king and the soldier Ivan a serious dispute occurs. A seasoned soldier, of course,...
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Story of an Unknown Actor
as uncreditedThe of an actor in a provincial theatre.
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Lost in Siberia
as BeriaThe political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British...
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Intervention
as Солдат антантыThe movie is set during the last days of a foreign intervention against Soviet Russia. Police...
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Hurry to Do Good
as uncreditedThe film-play tells about a teenage girl with a difficult fate, who by chance ended up in...
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The Visit
as Alfred IIIIn her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich...
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I want to go to America
as uncreditedThe spicy story of a modest Russian guy drawn into the incessant sexual marathon by the will of...
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The Golden Fleece
as uncreditedEight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
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Girl Without Dowry
as Сергей Сергеевич ПаратовUnlike her sisters, Larisa Ogudolova refuses to obey her mother's wish that she marry a wealthy...
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The Centaurs
as AndresThe story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
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The Amazing Boy
as Doctor KapaAfter professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very...
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Sympathy Seeker
as MagicianA Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father...
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Aelita, Do Not Pester Men
as uncreditedShe's not so young, not so pretty and has a weird name - but she still believes in founding her...
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Contract of the Century
as uncreditedIn order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline...
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Forgotten Tune for the Flute
as OdinokovA flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of...
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Aleksa Dundic
as uncreditedLife and times of Aleksa Dundic, a volunteer in the Serb army during WW1, who later became a...
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The Morning Round
as AlikDoctor Nechayev lives by the concerns of his patients. This is a man of remarkable mental...
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Murder on Dante Street
as Marsel RuzheA story about tragic events in France during the German occupation in WWII.
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Daylight Train
as uncreditedTwo old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.
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The Suicide
as конферансьеAs Soviet Russia enters the era of the New Economic Policy, Semyon Podsekalnikov decides to stop...
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Ordinary story
as SurkovThe film is a play based on the novel “An Ordinary History” by Ivan Goncharov directed by the...
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Today and Tomorrow
as Александр Григорьевич РассоловThe film raises environmental issues and examines the nature of the relationship between the...
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If the Enemy Doesn't Surrender...
as uncreditedA story about one of the big battles of WWII.
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Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night
as Oleh KostiantynovychThe story begins on New Year's Eve. The editor of the newspaper Orest Orlov offers the...
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Long-Haired Wonder
as uncreditedA story based on life events of famous gymnast Olga Korbut.
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The Career of Arturo Ui
as uncreditedWhen the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel...
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The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants
as uncreditedThe film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the...
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Three Years
as uncreditedAlexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev...
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Kings of Crime
as ArturThis is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in...
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Lot
as Innokentiy ZhiltsovYoung hockey player try his best to become success goal-keeper.
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I'm Free, I Belong to Nobody
as uncreditedThe hero of the film, afraid of losing both his wife and his mistress, is ultimately left alone.
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Russkiy Suvenir
as Claude GeraldThe end of the 1950s. The Chinese passenger plane, following the Beijing-Moscow flight, enters a...
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A Ballad of Love
as NikolaiLeningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes...
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Year of a Calf
as Valerian SergeyevichThe young energetic Lyudmila Petrovna Nikitina, who worked as a milkmaid on the farm, decided to...
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Time to Fly
as uncreditedNothing like this has ever happened and could not happen in any of the airports. However,...
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The Black Hen, or Living Underground
as DeforgeAt a St. Petersburg boarding school, a new life began for the ten-year-old Alyosha, who was...
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Widower's Houses
as uncreditedTwo friends, Harry and William, meet the respectable Mr. Sartorius and his lovely daughter...
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Dombey & Son
as uncreditedThe dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to...
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The Road to Rübezahl
as ApanasenkoThe German anti-fascist Max in 1939 emigrated to the USSR. During the Great Patriotic War, he...
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An Almost Funny Story
as uncreditedThe younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...
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Poet
as uncreditedSoviet propaganda film about communists plotting a violent attack on a Russian city. A local...
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Customs
as Владимир Николаевич НикитинWhen vigilant Soviet customs officers find smuggled gold on a ship named Amur, they conduct an...
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Fouetté
as PoetPrima-ballerina Elena Knyazeva prepares for her performance on the anniversary jubilee for the...
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New Girl
as uncreditedA talented athlete joins the USSR gymnastics team.
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Esop
as AgnostosThis is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and...
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We Are Russian People
as BoerBased on a novel by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. January 1917. The workers and peasants of Russia,...
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Normandy - Neman
as MilleA certain number of French fighter pilots who will not accept the Second Armistice at Compiègne...
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The First Courier
as Nikolay Fon GetsbergThe beginning of the XX century. In Munich, the Leninist "Iskra", an illegal newspaper of...
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Allow Take-Off!
as Viktor AzancheyevA new pilot arrives to a far away airport forcing the old veteran to retire.
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The Circus Boy
as uncreditedThis story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the...
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Do You Want to Be an Actress, Girl?
as uncreditedA young girl traumatized by her mother death is becoming an actress.
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Some Words in Honour of Mr. De Molière
as uncreditedEpisodes from the life of Molière with scenes from his play, revealing the tragic picture of the...
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Fiery River
as uncreditedThe second part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev's student...
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Tanya
as GermanThe story of a couple chasing their dreams amid the challenges of life in the postwar Soviet...
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From Lopatin's Notes
as uncreditedBased on the stories of the same cycle of Konstantin Simonov, who visited as a war correspondent...
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Players
as uncreditedThe play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a...
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Romeo and Juliet
as КапулеттиThis TV version of the world-famous play by William Shakespeare stands out for its unusual...
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The Man from the Other Side
as Andrey IzvolskiyAfter the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase...
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Mitya
as uncreditedThe chief engineer of a large enterprise is waiting for a meeting with the minister on an...
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The Magic Skin
as uncreditedStruggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop,...
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Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later
as политтехнолог Борис ГлебовичThe author's remake of the famous New Year's comedy is not an exact copy of the original....
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About the Cat...
as uncreditedThe musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".
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Islands in the Stream
as uncreditedTV version of a play based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumous novel.
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Postman's Tale
as (voice)Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.
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The Holiday of Disobedience
as (voice)About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they...
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Iron Mountain
as PreobrazhenskyThe third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan...
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as uncreditedAbout the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.
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The Terrorist
as uncreditedA man invites a soaking wet under the rain young girl to his house not suspecting that her visit...
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Monsieur Lenoir, who...
as uncreditedTeleplay based on the play by Armand Salacrou.
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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut
as ТенвильThe nobleman des Grieux falls in love with the mysterious and attractive girl of humble origin...
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Temptation
as uncreditedThe film takes place in Budapest in the 1920s. The teenage Rózsa Béla, the son of a...
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Breaking The Vicious Circle
as uncreditedThe film tells about Nursultan Nazarbayev who went into politics and made efforts to improve the...
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The Story of an Old Woman
as uncreditedThe Story of an Old Woman was filmed in one shot without any cutting or pasting. Annotation from...
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One Day of Zhora Vladimov
as uncreditedThe turning point for Russia is 1991. Exiled from the country, writer, dissident and human...
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The Master and Margarita
as Иосиф Каифа, человек во френчеThe Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the...
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The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
as uncreditedMishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX...
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12
as uncredited12 jurors must decide whether an 18-year-old boy accused of murdering his stepfather, a Russian...
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On the Other Side of the Wolves
as uncreditedThe action of the series takes place in the post-war years in a small town, which was...
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Чародеи
as Аполлон Митрофанович Сатанеев, заместитель директора НУИНУ по административно-хозяйственной части
