Valery Todorovsky

Known for DirectingBorn 1962-05-08 (age 64)Odessa, USSR (Ukraine)

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.Read more

Movies & web series

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Yankovsky

Payback for Love

Vocation

Katafalk

In Two

Cynics

Distraction for the Soul

Bomb

Gambrinus

A Man of a Retinue

The Idiot

Brigada

The Master and Margarita

Particle of the Universe

Love the Healing Power

The Thaw

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

Country of the Deaf

Into_nation of Big Odesa

Hipsters

Kandahar

The Frenchman

The Bolshoi

Cracked

Tango

The Actresses

My Step Brother Frankenstein

The Iron Ivan

Sea Wolf

Piranha Hunt

Seven Booths

PG 16...

The School for Scandal

Odessa

Ladoga

The Lover

The Admirer

Oxygen

The Optimists

Queen Margot

S.S.D.

Men Don't Cry

The Double

Hypnosis

Woman's Own

Tutor

Swing