Valentin Gaft
An image from Magicians, one of the productions that also features Valentin Gaft.
Valentin Gaft

Valentin Gaft

September 2, 1935 — 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.

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The Garage

The Garage

1979

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

2005

Magicians

Magicians

1982

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

2013

Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

Hello, I'm Your Aunt!

1975

The Dog in Boots

The Dog in Boots

1981

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

1980