Gaft Valentin Personal Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The most fame was brought to him by the roles played in the films of Eldar Ryazanov. Director, writer and poet. Master of Kolkhki epigrams. He was awarded the orders "For Merit to the Fatherland" of three degrees and the "Order of Friendship". Parents, both from Ukraine, having moved to Moscow, settled on the fourth floor of a five -story communal apartment on Sailor Silence Street, where Little Valya grew.

In childhood, Valentin Gaft, he remembered the neighboring buildings in which a prison, a psychiatric hospital and a hostel of students of Moscow State University are located. Between all this splendor, there are also a market and a wasteland on which local boys played football. Mom Vali, Gita Davydovna, was born in a family where there were thirteen children. Her father, a scrap driver, was least interested in the education of her daughter, but Gita read a lot, and she really liked the theater.

It was interesting to talk to any topic with her. Being a baby, Valya believed that his mother knew answers to all questions. When they came to his grandfather for the summer, he certainly asked him to take him to the barn, where there were a cow with a calf, who could be stroked and felt his rough tongue in his palm. The housekeeper Gaft stood all night in line to get tickets in the summer, and then she was offered to buy with her hands, as it turned out later, fake tickets.

I had to buy new ones - on e. But the war began, which Vyacheslav Molotov’s voice reported, and the family has not gone anywhere. Valentin Gaft: I play someone else's life as mine. The documentary was especially crashed to him in memory of the wire in the army of the cousin of the nineteen -year -old brother of Isai. A six -year -old child could not restrain his bitter tears, hugging his brother, barely reaching for his belt.

Valya and her mother stayed in Moscow. For life, he remembered the terrible feeling of bomb shelter and the roar of anxiety, which brought the boy to trembling. Joseph Ruvimovich also, among the first, volunteered to go to the front, rose to the major. Valentine was very proud of his dad. He carefully treated the front -line gift - a trophy flashlight that his father handed over from the front.

Then in the year the news came that Major Gaft was seriously wounded. He was transported to the Moscow hospital. When Valya and his mother visited him, all the bandaged, the boy came home and poked a knife into the newspapers, where there were pictures of the Nazis to take revenge on the dad for those who wounded him. When the war ended, Valentine was ten years old. Father returned from the war with the medal "For Military Merit" and died many years later, in the year.

Once Valentin saw at home to Comrade Piano and caught fire to the idea of ​​becoming a musician, for which he began to ask his mother to buy the same instrument home. Mom supported the idea, but at that moment there was no money in the family, and only after a while, when his father managed to earn money, the whole family went to the German trophies store. There were many tools, but there was no piano with candlesticks, which mother wanted to buy.

The Gaft Jr. did not happen to become a musician. But he really liked listening to thieves to the guitar in the yard. I liked to go to the Orion cinema - watch films with his favorite artists: Alla Tarasova, Pavel Massalsky, Vladimir Druzhnikov. And a visit to the play “Special Task” according to Sergey Mikhalkov in the fourth grade was so struck by the imagination of the boy that he thought that everything was happening on the stage was reality.

A frame from the film "Poet" of the year as a high school student of the men's school, Valentine decided that he would become an actor, because he participated in amateur performances, playing in school productions of women's roles. The most he remembered the image of the bride in the play “Offer” for Anton Chekhov. The profession of the actor seemed easy and unrelenting to him: he went on stage, said “to eat” and bathe in applause.

But when he, a tenth grader, went to the second round to the famous school-studio of the Moscow Art Theater, he began to worry. For the second round, Valentine chose Ivan Krylov’s fable “Curious”, not fully understanding her essence. Thinking with himself, he wandered along the "Sokolniki" and suddenly dumbfounded: he was walking towards him, walking the two setter, the legendary actor Sergei Stolyarov was walking.

Gaft came up and immediately began to explain his problem to the great artist. To his surprise, Sergei Dmitrievich suggested coming to his house in order to make out in detail the fable: “Understand, young man, because two different people are talking,” Stolyarov explained later. And the other was just in a panopticon, saw something extraordinary and wants to tell everyone about it.

The person sometimes knows, the more he wants to talk about what he does not know. ” Until now, Gaft considers Stolyarov to be his first teacher, who took such a lively participation in his acting fate. He withstood the exams with honor, and seeing his name in the list of those who received, he ran to the house with delight, where with a happy expression on his face he announced his parents that he became a student of the theater university.

The reaction of the parents to this message was somewhat peculiar.As the artist later recalled, his mother generally decided that he was accepted into a geophysical circle, and dad sighed disappointedly: “Well, what kind of artist are you? Here is Misha Kozakov - he has a butterfly, and a suit. What are you? On the recommendation of Dmitry Zhuravlev, the famous studio and reader at that time, the young actor Gaft was accepted into the Moscow City Council in the year.

Young Valentin Gaft in the film “Russian Souvenir” for about a year Valentine played the notorious “Eat”, but by the time he was tired of plain roles, he met with the famous Estrost Garin, the artistic director of the satire theater. Gaft later recalled how the great actor offered him a role in the production of “Shadow”: “Young man, our artist washed down, would you play the role of a scientist?

He invited me to rehearse to his home ... I remember we went to his office after a few rooms. And in one of them stood a bed with a net in which under a sheet lay ...

a corpse. The lifeless hand hung out of bed, the face - skin and bones. It seemed to me that this is a child. Erast Pavlovich, not paying attention, led me to his office and spoke about Meyerhold ... I painfully thought: “Lord, who would tell him and well, because it was Garina’s wife, Henia Lokshina, his assistant and unsurpassed dubbing master. She just slept. And she always looked like that, it was normal for her.

” On the debut of Gaft in the Satire Theater, parents and his future wife came. And he was so worried that he mixed up which of the scene’s partner should contact, and besides, he almost dumped the decoration into the orchestral pit. On this, the first part of the actor’s cooperation with the eminent theater ended. Together with Alexander Shirvindt and Mikhail Derzhavin, Gaft tried to defend the director when they tried to expel him from Lenkom.

But nothing came out of the undertaking to the high authorities, and many actors, including Valentin Gaft, moved in the year with Efros to the theater on Malaya Bronnaya. Perhaps the artist would have remained there, but because of the prima of the theater, Olga Yakovleva, who, in the soft expression of Gaft, “took up too much space, although she was a wonderful artist,” he had to leave, like Oleg Dalya Petrenko and other actors.

Valentine left for Yalta. On the beach, Andrei Mironov turned out to be his neighbor on the sunbed, who offered the actor to play Count Almaviv in the legendary production of Figaro. And Gaft played. So that, after one of the performances, Oleg Efremov went to his dressing room and invited a contemporary theater. Valentin Gaft in the play “Othello” and the actor blossomed. On these theatrical stages, he played his main roles and the first of them-Aduev Sr.

from the "ordinary history" in the production of Galina Volchek. He was introduced instead of Mikhail Kozakov. Gaft later recalled how it was a shame when he heard from the audience at his own expense: “Yes ... not Kozakov ...” He helped him cope with the role of Evgeny Evstigneev, when they, along with the “contemporary”, went on tour to Tashkent. It was he who then said the single exact word, they say, Aduev needs to play “reprisely”, that is, simply and large.

Gaft was awarded several theater awards, including the Figaro National Prize named after Andrei Mironov and the Crystal Turandot for many years of service to the theater. When the young student saw the famous Rostislav Plyatt on the site, he could not really tie two words, for which he was printed by the disappointed phrase of the second director: “How we made a mistake in this guy!

The first role of Valentin Gaft in the movie “Murder on Dante Street”, at that moment Valentine seemed to be frozen, and when he later more than once crossed the threshold of the film studio, this feeling appeared with him over the next twenty years. The sixties did not bring significant roles to the actor, his texture and appearance did not correspond much to the heroes of those times.

The frame from the film "Intervention" when the first year the picture "Hello, I am your aunt! Valentin Gaft in the film "Hello, I'm your aunt! The replicas of his hero soon “went into the people”, and Ryazanov forever fell in love with this non -standard, unusually talented and diverse actor. On the set of the film “Garage” in the Ryazanovsky vaudeville “About the poor hussar, put the word” Gaft as organized as the father-commander of the hussar regiment of Colonel Pokrovsky, in the “Forgotten Melody for the Flute” brilliantly embodied the image of the leading Service-Bolvan Odokov, in the “Heaven of the Promised”-the leader Klyachkh " - a noble general.

The last joint work of Gaft with the illustrious director was the painting “Carnival Night-2”. Why Alexandra Yakovlev and Valentin Gaft did not like each other one of the latest Kino -Gaft filmwalls in the parable “Fourth”, directorial debut of Kirill Safonov. The windows of the hostel overlooked the wasteland, where he played football as a boy. As soon as the girl peeked out the window, Val seemed to be the best striker, and was so transformed that he scored a goal for a bare.The current doctor of physical and mathematical sciences learned about her boy only many years later.

She was so beautiful that people on the street just froze when she saw her. Together with the house of models, the girl traveled almost the whole world. The first wife of Valentina Gaft Elena Izergina, after the wedding, the young settled by Valentine's mother -in -law, sharing the only room on the low first floor with boards. The windows constantly rattled from the trolleybuses passing by, but at first the lovers did not notice anything around.

But then Gafta began to strain the wife of the wife for animals: I also love them, but not to such an extent. Every day she brought home or a kitten who wrote to the battery, or legless pigeons that flew over our heads. It smelled in the house is impossible ... Cockroaches and bugs fit into the overall picture so that it was a pity to put pressure. I walked all in feathers and wool.