Valery Todorovsky
Born: 1962-05-08 in Odessa, USSR (Ukraine)
Known For: Directing
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
2025
- Tango ... (Producer)
2024
- Adults ... (Producer)
2023
- The Actresses ... (Producer)
2022
- In Two ... (Director)
- No One Will Know ... (Producer)
2021
- Danube ... (Producer)
2019
- Odessa ... (Director)
- ВГИК100. Признание в любви as self
- The Frenchman ... (Producer)
2018
- Into_nation of Big Odesa as Himself / Narrator
- Tutor ... (Producer)
- Particle of the Universe ... (Producer)
2017
- The Optimists ... (Producer)
2016
- The Bolshoi ... (Director)
2015
2014
- The Iron Ivan ... (Producer)
- Ladoga ... (Producer)
- Jolly Fellows;) ... (Producer)
2013
- The Thaw as director
- The Geographer Drank His Globe Away ... (Screenplay)
2012
- Love the Healing Power ... (Producer)
2011
- Payback for Love ... (Producer)
2010
- Kandahar ... (Producer)
- Detective Agency Ivan da Marya ... (Producer)
- PG 16...
2009
- PickUp: With no Rules ... (Producer)
- The Road Leading to Happiness ... (Producer)
- Oxygen ... (Producer)
- Life on Loan ... (Producer)
2008
- Hipsters ... (Writer)
- Fathers and Sons ... (Producer)
- S.S.D. ... (Producer)
- Swing ... (Producer)
- A Real Dad ... (Producer)
- Love as a Motive ... (Producer)
- Pobochnyy Effekt ... (Producer)
2007
- Vice ... (Art Direction)
- Nine Days Until Spring ... (Producer)
- A Room With a View of the Lights ... (Producer)
- Joke ... (Producer)
- Seven Booths ... (Producer)
- The Vaccine ... (Producer)
- Styx ... (Producer)
2006
- The Last Bottomhole ... (Producer)
- Piranha Hunt ... (Producer)
- Butterfly Kiss ... (Producer)
- The Count of Montenegro ... (Producer)
- Countdown ... (Producer)
2005
- The Master and Margarita ... (Producer)
- Vocation ... (Producer)
2004
- My Step Brother Frankenstein ... (Director)
- Red Chapel ... (Producer)
- Women in a Game Without Rules ... (Producer)
- Men Don't Cry ... (Producer)
2003
- The Idiot ... (Producer)
2002
- The School for Scandal
- Brigada ... (Producer)
- The Lover ... (Director)
- Law ... (Producer)
- The Murderer's Diary ... (Producer)
- Lady for One Day ... (Producer)
- Tartarin of Tarascon ... (Producer)
1999
- The Admirer ... (Producer)
- Woman's Own ... (Editor)
1998
- Country of the Deaf ... (Director)
1997
- The Source of Snakes ... (Producer)
1996
- Queen Margot ... (Editor)
1994
- Katya Ismailova ... (Director)
1993
- Over the Dark Water ... (Writer)
1992
- Cracked ... (Producer)
1990
- Katafalk ... (Director)
- Distraction for the Soul ... (Writer)
- Gambrinus ... (Screenplay)
1989
- Scourge of God ... (Screenplay)
1987
- A Man of a Retinue ... (Writer)
1986
- The Double ... (Screenplay)
1978
- A Strange Woman as Voloda