Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский; born 9 May 1962, in

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) 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

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(1990) and ''Love (Lyubov)'' received Ecumenical Prize at

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(1992), and won awards at Sozvezdie,

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and Montpellier Film Festivals. Todorovsky made a name for himself with the crime melodrama set in

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, '' The Country of Deaf (Strana Glukhikh)'', scripted by actress-director-scriptwriter

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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

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for Best Film.

TV

Valery Todorovsky also co-produced the Russian gangster TV series ''

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'' (2002) (which eventually received a cult popularity) and the 2005

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of the ''

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'' 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

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's era. In 2022, The Russian streaming service More.tv showed the drama '' In two'', directed by Todorovsky, and starring Alexander Petrov,

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and

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Todorovsky, Valery 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