Valery Todorovsky
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
105
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-05-08 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Odessa, USSR (Ukraine)
Acting

2018

Into_nation of Big Odesa as Himself / Narrator

2015

Yankovsky as Not available

2013

The Thaw as director

2010

PG 16... as Not available

2002

The School for Scandal as Not available

1978

A Strange Woman as Voloda
Crew

2025

Tango Producer

2025

Tango Creator

2024

Adults Producer

2023

The Actresses Producer

2022

No One Will Know Producer

2022

In Two Director

2022

In Two Producer

2022

In Two Creator

2021

Danube Producer

2020

Hypnosis Director

2020

Hypnosis Producer

2020

Bomb Producer

2019

Odessa Director

2019

The Frenchman Producer

2019

Odessa Producer

2019

Odessa Idea

2018

Tutor Producer

2017

The Optimists Producer

2016

The Bolshoi Director

2016

The Bolshoi Story

2016

The Bolshoi Producer

2014

Vesyolye rebyata;) Producer

2014

The Iron Ivan Producer

2014

Ladoga Producer

2013

The Thaw Writer

2013

The Thaw Producer

2013

The Thaw Director

2013

The Thaw Creator

2011

Payback for Love Producer

2010

Kandahar Producer

2010

PG 16... Producer

2009

Life on Loan Producer

2009

PickUp: With no Rules Producer

2009

Oxygen Producer

2008

Hipsters Writer

2008

Hipsters Director

2008

S.S.D. Producer

2008

Swing Producer

2008

A Real Dad Producer

2008

Hipsters Producer

2008

Love as a Motive Producer

2008

Pobochnyy Effekt Producer

2008

Fathers and Sons Producer

2007

Joke Producer

2007

Vice Director

2007

Vice Art Direction

2007

Vice Writer

2007

The Vaccine Producer

2007

Vice Producer

2007

Seven Booths Producer

2007

Styx Producer

2006

Countdown Producer

2006

The Last Bottomhole Producer

2006

Piranha Hunt Producer

2006

Butterfly Kiss Producer

2005

Vocation Producer

2004

Men Don't Cry Producer

2004

Red Chapel Producer

2003

The Idiot Producer

2002

Lady for One Day Producer

2002

Tartarin of Tarascon Producer

2002

The Lover Director

2002

Brigada Producer

2002

The Murderer's Diary Producer

2002

Law Producer

1999

Woman's Own Editor

1999

The Admirer Producer

1998

Country of the Deaf Director

1997

The Source of Snakes Producer

1996

Queen Margot Editor

1994

Katya Ismailova Director

1992

Cracked Producer

1991

Love Director

1991

Love Writer

1991

Sea Wolf Screenplay

1991

Cynics Screenplay

1990

Gambrinus Screenplay

1990

Katafalk Director

1989

Scourge of God Screenplay

1987

A Man of a Retinue Writer

1986

The Double Screenplay