“Valentin Iosifovich Gaft is a brilliant graduate of the Moscow Art Theater School, the famous course on which Tabakov and Evstigneev studied ... In general, during these years some incredibly talented courses were issued, and this generation, of course, Valentin Iosifovich belongs to him in the forefront ...
And as a rector, I am proud, proud that such people, such wonderful actors came out of the walls of the Studio School, ”Zolotovitsky said.
He added that Gaft was an incredible person with his own vision of the world, with his own vision of the attitude to the profession, attitude to what is happening around.
“Of course, it is terribly bitter to talk about him in the past tense.
The last interview I took with him, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Studio School, as he remarkably says, was just talking about some important things.
What is decency for us, what is the school of life for us.
It is terribly bitter, there are so many deaths in these turbulent times, "the RT interlocutor concluded.
Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, theater director, People's Artist of the RSFSR Valentin Gaft died on December 12 at the age of 85.