Valentin Gaft

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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 ----- Born : 2nd-Sep-1935

Movie Credits

12

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.
Released : 6th-Jun-2007

Cement

About the restoration of a cement plant destroyed during the Civil War.
Released : 7th-Nov-1974

The Circus Boy

This story is about the events of the beginning of the century, the circus, in which the favorite of the troupe Alesha grew up. After the mother - acrobat Maria-Louise died, his childhood was over. Revolutionary events influenced the fate of a small circus - and the boy was left alone. But when in his life appeared Bolshevik Stepan Ratushny, Alyosha again began to perform in the circus.
Released : 1st-Jan-1980

Небо в алмазах

Released : 3rd-Nov-1999

The Magic Skin

Struggling with financial loss, a poet receives a shagreen leather from an antiquities shop, fulfilling his wishes
Released : 11th-Sep-1975

Суббота и воскресенье

Released : 1st-Jan-1982

Three Years

Alexey visits his seriously ill sister and meets a nice young woman Julia. After a while, Laptev decides to marry her, but the relationship is not going to be simple.
Released : 1st-Jan-1980

Дорогое удовольствие

Released : 1st-Dec-1988

Футболист

Released : 1st-Jul-1991

Magicians

In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
Released : 31st-Dec-1982

Say a Word for the Poor Hussar

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will eventually be defeated by the nobility, loyalty and love.
Released : 1st-Jan-1980

Как кошка с собакой

Released : 1st-Jan-1973

Promised Heaven

In the new Russia, former middle class citizens find themselves out in the dumps. Literally. They build homes, elect their own government, work, beg, scavenge, date and fight all while living in a huge city dump. Some try to beat the odds and return to society, but it seems that there is only one place left for them to go...
Released : 1st-Jan-1991

The Master and Margarita

Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into the fire, before he is locked up in a mental clinic. His assistant and Muse Margarita tries to help Master using the supernatural powers she got from the devil - Woland who is visiting Moscow..
Released : 6th-Jun-1994

The Holiday of Disobedience

About that, how parents abandoned the disobedient children and returned only then, when they reformed.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1977

Postman's Tale

Based on the tale of the same name by Karel Capek about postal gnomes.
Released : 10th-Mar-1978

Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus

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
Released : 22nd-Apr-2010

Intervention

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.
Released : 6th-Jun-1968

Cabbages and Kings

Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at the local barber's, and the mysterious stranger who one day was washed ashore by the waves on the coast of Anchuria...
Released : 29th-Sep-1979

Записки Пиквикского клуба

Released : 1st-Jan-1972

Year of a Calf

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.
Released : 15th-Dec-1986

The Amazing Boy

After professor creates a robot who looks like blue-eyed boy the criminals become very interested in the invention.
Released : 1st-Sep-1970

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 happiness.
Released : 6th-Jun-1988

The Feasts of Valtasar, or The Night with Stalin

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.
Released : 6th-Nov-1989

About the Cat...

The musical based on the famous "Puss in the Boots".
Released : 8th-Feb-1987

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.
Released : 6th-Jun-1994

The Garage

An automotive highway is scheduled to be built through the territory of a garage cooperative. A special meeting of the cooperative takes place to reduce the number of garages. As all was already decided and arranged by the chairholder and the board, the decision passes easily at the meeting. But one unexpected event happens - the meeting room's entrance has been locked by an anonymous member and the key is missing...
Released : 23rd-Nov-1979

Old Hags

Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Released : 3rd-Mar-2000

Daylight Train

Two old friends living in Moscow and St. Petersburg are hoping to get their children married.
Released : 6th-Jun-1976

The Terrorist

A man invites a soaking wet under the rain young girl to his house not suspecting that her visit is not an accident.
Released : 1st-Oct-1991

The Career of Arturo Ui

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny comedy...
Released : 7th-Jun-1996

A Ballad of Love

Leningrade. Galina works as a restorer at Catherine Palace; she is a sculptor as well and takes her profession very seriously and enthusiastically. Vera, a friend from art school, sees her loneliness and introduces her to her husband's colleagues - friendly Mitya and mysterious Andrey. Soon Galina finds herself torn between the two men.
Released : 20th-Feb-1970

Mister Perrichon's Trip

Monsieur Perrichon, a rich coachbuilder by profession, is an honest but vain member of the bourgeoisie who decides to take a pleasure trip in the company of his wife Caroline and his daughter Henrietta. The family, deciding on a train journey to the Swiss Alps, arrive at Gare de Lyon in Paris where they happen upon two young suitors, both with the same goal of marrying Henrietta. Over the course of the journey, the two men are involved in an honorable but fierce struggle for the young lady's hand in marriage.
Released : 30th-Aug-1990

Esop

This is a story about Greek slave Esop, who contributed a lot to the world of literature, and about his silly owner, who had the power and money, but did not have kindness.
Released : 1st-Jan-1981

Night Fun

A night become real "fun" for a family with the visit from very strange person.
Released : 1st-Jan-1991

The Visit

In her teens, Mme. Zachanassian had to flee her home town in disgrace. Now she's old and rich and the town is facing bankruptcy. But she returns with news that she wants to help - as long as the townsfolk kill someone for her.
Released : 30th-Jun-1989

Kings of Crime

This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetoric, deaths of innocent people.
Released : 6th-Jun-1988

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 mess in the same House of Culture, where they celebrated the New Year 50 years ago. Now the institution is named after Ogurtsov and is headed by Mr. Kabachkov. A young enthusiast Alyona Krylatova and a young man Denis Kolechkin work in the recreation center. Alyona, as she can, opposes the "arts" of the bureaucrat and opportunist Kabachkov, and Denis helps her.
Released : 6th-Jun-2006

Sympathy Seeker

A Christmas story, almost a fairy tale. An ordinary Russian girl brought up without a father could not even think that one fine day she would find him. And who could suppose that three "fathers" at once would pretend to the role?
Released : 7th-Dec-1997

New Adventures of Babka Ezhka

Released : 10th-Sep-2008

Lost in Siberia

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.
Released : 8th-Apr-1991

Eight Days of Hope

Released : 28th-Dec-1984

Wings

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?
Released : 8th-Aug-2012

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 the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1987

Long-Haired Wonder

A story based on life events of famous gymnast Olga Korbut.
Released : 6th-Jun-1974

Encore, Once More Encore!

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.
Released : 6th-Jun-1992

The Story of an Old Woman

The Story of an Old Woman was filmed in one shot without any cutting or pasting. Annotation from author: In this film I wanted to show how the one person can be violent and aggressive, and the other one helpless and defenseless. Our heroes hide their flaws behind the beautiful words and actions. Unfortunately a betrayal of the family became more common, and the opportunity to get hit in the back from the nearest person is already a reality. The film is about the family relationship, happiness and sorrow. The main thing is to stay human in all circumstances.
Released : 4th-Oct-2013

An Almost Funny Story

The younger of two sisters living together suddenly meets the love of her life...
Released : 27th-Jul-1977

Six Degrees of Celebration 3

And again a heroes of "Yolki" series are ready and prepared for a New Year.
Released : 26th-Dec-2013

Fight in a Blizzard

Released : 1st-Jan-1977

Tender Age

A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...
Released : 6th-Jun-2000

TV Credits

Мастер и Маргарита

Иосиф Каифа, человек во френче - The Master and Margarita is a Russian television production of Telekanal Rossiya, based on the novel The Master and Margarita, written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940. Vladimir Bortko directed this adaptation and was also its screenwriter.
Released : 19th-Dec-2005

Визит к Минотавру

Pavel Petrovich Ikonnikov -
Released : 9th-Nov-1987

Ольга Сергеевна

Троянкин -
Released : 13th-Oct-1975

12

- 12 jurors must decide whether an 18-year-old boy accused of murdering his stepfather, a Russian army officer who fought in Chechnya, is guilty. All the evidence points against the accused, and eleven of the twelve people gathered in the school gym are ready to convict the young man. But one of the jurors is sure that everything is not as clear as it seems at first glance, and suggests a more thoughtful consideration of the case.
Released : 4th-Nov-2008

Жизнь Клима Самгина

Trifonov -
Released : 28th-Mar-1988

По ту сторону волков

- The action of the series takes place in the post-war years in a small town, which was overwhelmed by a series of mysterious murders. Mutilated corpses with torn throats and bloody traces of wolf paws plunged the locals into panic. The young head of the local UGRO, Mysik, is trying to understand the events taking place and understand who benefits from the atmosphere of fear and superstition that has developed among the workers of the trophy warehouse and elite stud farm.
Released : 21st-Oct-2002

Девять неизвестных

Viktor Sevidov - britanskiy millioner -
Released : 10th-Jan-2006

Жизнь и приключения Мишки Япончика

- Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.
Released : 9th-Nov-2011

Morpekhi

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Released : 3rd-Oct-2011

Чародеи

Аполлон Митрофанович Сатанеев, заместитель директора НУИНУ по административно-хозяйственной части -
Released : 31st-Dec-1982

Короли и капуста

Frank Goodwin -
Released : 29th-Sep-1979

Ночные забавы

Езепов -
Released : 4th-Jan-1993

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