Biography
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский; Ukranian: Валерій Петрович Тодоровський; born 9 May 1962; Odessa) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer whose best known film is "Hipsters" (2008). He is the son of filmmaker Pyotr Todorovsky (1925-2013) and the father of the filmmaker Pyotr Todorovsky Jr. (1986).
Of his earlier films, The Hearse (Katafalk) won the Grand Prix at Mannheim (1990) and Love (Lyubov) received Ecumenical Prize at Cannes (1992), and won awards at Sozvezdie, Chicago, Geneva and Montpellier Film Festivals. Todorovsky made a name for himself with the crime melodrama set in Moscow, The Country of Deaf (Strana Glukhikh), scripted by actress-director-scriptwriter Renata Litvinova based on her own novella To Have and to Belong. The film was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival in 1998. In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. His 2008 musical film Hipsters won the Golden Eagle Award and Nika Award for Best Film.
Valery Todorovsky also co-produced the Russian gangster TV series Brigada (2002) (which eventually received a cult popularity) and the 2005 TV adaptation of the Master and Margarita for Telekanal Rossiya. In 2013, Russian TV main channel "Channel 1" showed a serial The Thaw. It was Valeriy's debut on TV as a director. The ratings proved the serial was received with a great success. The serial is a melodrama about life in the Soviet Union during the early years of Nikita Khrushchev's era. In 2022, The Russian streaming service More.tv showed the drama In two, directed by Todorovsky, and starring Alexander Petrov, Danila Kozlovsky and Irina Starshenbaum.
Filmography
all 79
Movies 59
Producer 51
TV Shows 20
Director 11
Writer 8
self 2
Screenplay 2
The Actresses (2023)
Надвое (2022)
Никто не узнает (2022)
Danube (2021)
Bomb (2020)
Hypnosis (2020)
A Frenchman (2019)
ВГИК100. Признание в любви (2019)
Odessa (2019)
Tutor (2018)
Into_nation of Big Odessa (2018)
Частица вселенной (2018)
The Optimists (2017)
The Bolshoi (2016)
Yankovsky (2015)
Vesyolye rebyata;) (2014)
The Iron Ivan (2014)
Ladoga (2014)
The Thaw (2013)
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)
Love the healing power (2012)
Payback for love (2011)
PG 16... (2010)
Детективное агентство Иван да Марья (2010)
Kandahar (2010)
PickUp: With no Rules (2009)
Oxygen (2009)
Жизнь взаймы (2009)
The Road Leading to Happiness (2009)
Hipsters (2008)
Fathers and Sons (2008)
Side effect (2008)
S.S.D. (2008)
Love as a motive (2008)
A Real Dad (2008)
Swing (2008)
Vice (2007)
Shutka (2007)
The Vaccine (2007)
Nine days until spring (2007)
Seven Booths (2007)
Komnata s vidom na ogni (2007)
Countdown (2006)
The Last Bottomhole (2006)
Butterfly Kiss (2006)
Piranha Hunt (2006)
The Count of Montenegro (2006)
The Master and Margarita (2005)
Vocation (2005)
My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004)
Red Chapel (2004)
Men Don't Cry (2004)
The Idiot (2003)
The Lover (2002)
The School for Scandal (2002)
Brigada (2002)
Lady for One Day (2002)
Tartarin of Tarascon (2002)
Law (2002)
The Killer's Diary (2002)
The Admirer (1999)
Woman's Own (1999)
Country of the Deaf (1998)
The Source of Snakes (1997)
Queen Margot (1996)
Katya Ismailova (1994)
Over the Dark Water (1993)
Cracked (1992)
Love (1991)
Морской волк (1991)
Cynics (1991)
Gambrinus (1990)
Distraction for the Soul (1990)
Katafalk (1990)
Scourge of God (1989)
A Man of a Retinue (1987)
The Double (1986)
A Strange Woman (1978)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1962-05-08 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceOdesa, Ukraine
FatherPyotr Todorovsky
CitizenshipsRussia, Soviet Union
Also Known AsВалерий Тодоровский, Valeriy Todorovskiy, Valery Todorovskiy, Валерій Петрович Тодоровський, Валерій Тодоровський, Valery Petrovich Todorovsky, Valery Todorovsky
AwardsRussian Federation's Government Award, TEFI, Golden Eagle Awards, Nika Award, Government Prize of the Russian Federation, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I class
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