Valentin Kataev

Valentin Kataev was born on Jan 28, 1897 in Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. Valentin Kataev's big-screen debut came with Schastlivyye koltsa directed by Lev Golub in 1929. Valentin Kataev is known for Vremya, vperyod! directed by Sofiya Milkina, Inna Gulaya stars as Shura Soldatova and Tamara Syomina as Olya Tregubova. The most recent award Valentin Kataev achieved is Grimme Award. The upcoming new movie Valentin Kataev plays is Vremya, vperyod! which will be released on Nov 22, 1965.

Russian novelist and playwright Valentin Katayev was born in 1897 in the Ukraine, to a middle-class background: his father was a schoolteacher and his grandfather was a general in the Czarist army. He joined the army in 1917 during World War I, was assigned to an artillery unit, and was wounded twice. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 he joined the Bolshevik side, and fought with their forces in the Ukraine against the White Russian army. His innate stubborn streak resulted in several clashes with his superiors about his not being Communist "enough", and at one point he was arrested by the Cheka--the Communist secret police--and spent almost a year in one of their prisons.