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Valentin Gaft

Valentin Gaft

Birthday: 1935-09-02 | Place of Birth: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]

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 -----

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
The Chosen Ones

as    himself

2013
Wings

as    Byvaly (Voice)

2009
The Music of Life

as    Self (archive footage)

2009
The Book of Masters

as    Volshebnoe Zerkalo

2007
12

as    Juror #4

2007
Carnival Night 2, or 50 Years Later

as    политтехнолог Борис Глебович

2006
Nine Unknowns

as    Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner

2005
The Master and Margarita

as    Иосиф Каифа, человек во френче

2003
Snow Love, or A Dream on a Winter Night

as    Oleh Kostiantynovych

2000
Old Hags

as    General

2000
House for the Rich

as    Roman Rumyanov

1997
Sympathy Seeker

as    Magician

1994
The Master and Margarita

as    Woland

1993
Ночные забавы

as    Езепов

1992
Encore, Once More Encore!

as    Colonel Fedor Vinogradov

1991
Promised Heaven

as    President