
Valery Todorovsky
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-05-08 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Odessa, USSR (Ukraine)
Valery Todorovsky
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.
Acting
(2019)
ВГИК100. Признание в любви
as self
(2018)
Into_nation of Big Odessa
as Himself / Narrator
(2015)
(2010)
(1978)
A Strange Woman
as Voloda
Crew
(2021)
Danube
Producer
(2020)
Hypnosis
Director, Producer
(2019)
Odessa
Director, Producer, Idea
(2019)
The Frenchman
Producer
(2018)
Tutor
Producer
(2016)
The Bolshoi
Director, Story, Producer
(2014)
Vesyolye rebyata;)
Producer
(2014)
The Iron Ivan
Producer
(2013)
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
Screenplay, Producer
(2012)
Love the Healing Power
Producer
(2011)
Payback for Love
Producer
(2010)
Kandahar
Producer
(2010)
PG 16...
Producer
(2009)
The Road Leading to Happiness
Producer
(2009)
Life on Loan
Producer
(2009)
PickUp: With no Rules
Producer
(2009)
Oxygen
Producer
(2008)
Hipsters
Writer, Director, Producer
(2008)
S.S.D.
Producer
(2008)
Swing
Producer
(2008)
A Real Dad
Producer
(2008)
Love as a Motive
Producer
(2008)
Pobochnyy Effekt
Producer
(2007)
A Room With a View of the Lights
Producer
(2007)
Joke
Producer
(2007)
Nine Days Until Spring
Producer
(2007)
Vice
Art Direction, Director, Writer, Producer
(2007)
The Vaccine
Producer
(2007)
Seven Booths
Producer
(2006)
Countdown
Producer
(2006)
The Last Bottomhole
Producer, Writer
(2006)
The Count of Montenegro
Producer
(2006)
Piranha Hunt
Producer
(2006)
Butterfly Kiss
Producer
(2004)
My Step Brother Frankenstein
Director
(2002)
Lady for One Day
Producer
(2002)
Tartarin of Tarascon
Producer
(2002)
The Lover
Director
(1999)
Woman's Own
Editor
(1999)
The Admirer
Producer
(1998)
Country of the Deaf
Director, Writer
(1997)
The Source of Snakes
Producer
(1994)
Katya Ismailova
Director
(1993)
Over the Dark Water
Writer
(1992)
Cracked
Producer
(1991)
Love
Director, Writer
(1991)
Морской волк
Screenplay
(1991)
Cynics
Screenplay
(1990)
Gambrinus
Screenplay
(1990)
Katafalk
Director
(1990)
Distraction for the Soul
Writer
(1989)
Scourge of God
Screenplay
(1987)
A Man of a Retinue
Writer
(1986)
The Double
Screenplay