Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский; born 9 May 1962, in
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrativ ...
) is a Russian
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
,
screenwriter,
TV producer
A television producer is a person who oversees one or more aspects of video production on a television program. Some producers take more of an executive role, in that they conceive new programs and pitch them to the television networks, but upon a ...
whose best known film is ''
Hipsters'' (2008). He is the son of
Pyotr Todorovsky
Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky (russian: Пётр Ефи́мович Тодоро́вский, uk, Петро Юхимович Тодоровський, 26 August 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematograph ...
.
Cinema
Of his earlier films, ''The Hearse (Katafalk)'' won the Grand Prix at
Mannheim
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(1990) and ''Love (Lyubov)'' received
Ecumenical Prize at
Cannes
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(1992),
and won awards at Sozvezdie,
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Geneva
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and
Montpellier Film Festivals.
Todorovsky made a name for himself with the
crime melodrama set in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
, ''
The Country of Deaf (Strana Glukhikh)'', scripted by actress-director-scriptwriter
Renata Litvinova
Renata Muratovna Litvinova (russian: Рената Муратовна Литвинова; born 12 January 1967) is a Russian actress, film director, and screenwriter.
Biography
Litvinova was born in Moscow to Volga Tatar father Murat Aminovic ...
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
The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars.
History
The award was established i ...
for Best Film.
TV
Valery Todorovsky also co-produced the Russian gangster TV series ''
Brigada
''Brigada'' (russian: Бригада), also known as ''Law of the Lawless'', is a Russian 15-episode crime television miniseries that debuted in 2002. It became very popular in Russia and ex-Soviet countries as well as Eastern Europe, but recei ...
'' (2002) (which eventually received a cult popularity) and the 2005
TV adaptation
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Some common examples are:
* Film adaptation, a story from another work, adapted into a film (it may be a novel, non-fiction like journalism, autobiography, ...
of the ''
Master and Margarita
''The Master and Margarita'' (russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin's regime. A censored version, with several chapters cut by ...
'' 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
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (– 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev s ...
's era.
In 2022, The Russian streaming service
More.tv showed the drama ''
In two'', directed by Todorovsky, and starring
Alexander Petrov,
Danila Kozlovsky
Danila Valeryevich Kozlovsky (russian: link=no, Данила Валерьевич Козловский; born 3 May 1985) is a Russian actor and director.
Biography Early life and career
Danila Kozlovsky was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet ...
and
Irina Starshenbaum
Irina Vladimirovna Starshenbaum (russian: Ирина Владимировна Старшенба́ум; born 30 March 1992) is a Russian stage, film and voice actress. For her role in ''T-34'', she won the TEFI award for Best Actress and was a no ...
.
References
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1962 births
Living people
Russian film directors
20th-century Russian screenwriters
20th-century Russian male writers
Russian film producers
Male screenwriters
Russian male writers
Soviet film directors
Soviet screenwriters
Film people from Odesa
Odesa Jews
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni
Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia