About

Known credits:
100
Birthday:
1962-05-08
Place of birth:
Odessa, USSR (Ukraine)
Website:
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Valery Todorovsky

Overview

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

Acting
2019 ВГИК100. Признание в любви Actor self N/A
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2018 Into_nation of Big Odesa Actor Himself / Narrator 58
Average
2015 Yankovsky Actor 59
Average
2013 The Thaw Actor director 69
Fair
2010 PG 16... Actor 58
Average
1978 A Strange Woman Actor Voloda 58
Average

Directing
2022 In Two Directing Director 71
Good
2020 Hypnosis Directing Director 58
Average
2019 Odessa Directing Director 59
Average
2016 The Bolshoi Directing Director 59
Average
2013 The Thaw Directing Director 69
Fair
2008 Hipsters Directing Director 59
Average
2007 Vice Directing Director 58
Average
2004 My Step Brother Frankenstein Directing Director 59
Average
2002 The Lover Directing Director 59
Average
1998 Country of the Deaf Directing Director 59
Average
1994 Katya Ismailova Directing Director 58
Average
1991 Love Directing Director 58
Average
1990 Katafalk Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2019 Odessa Writing Idea 59
Average
2016 The Bolshoi Writing Story 59
Average
2013 The Thaw Writing Writer 69
Fair
2013 The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Writing Screenplay 60
Fair
2008 Hipsters Writing Writer 59
Average
2007 Vice Writing Writer 58
Average
2006 The Last Bottomhole Writing Writer 58
Average
1998 Country of the Deaf Writing Writer 59
Average
1993 Over the Dark Water Writing Writer 59
Average
1991 Love Writing Writer 58
Average
1991 Sea Wolf Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1991 Cynics Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1990 Gambrinus Writing Screenplay N/A
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1990 Distraction for the Soul Writing Writer N/A
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1989 Scourge of God Writing Screenplay 58
Average
1987 A Man of a Retinue Writing Writer 59
Average
1986 The Double Writing Screenplay 58
Average

Production
2025 Tango Production Producer N/A
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2024 Adults Production Producer N/A
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2023 The Actresses Production Producer 69
Fair
2022 In Two Production Producer 71
Good
2022 No One Will Know Production Producer N/A
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2021 Danube Production Producer 58
Average
2020 Bomb Production Producer 69
Fair
2020 Hypnosis Production Producer 58
Average
2019 The Frenchman Production Producer 58
Average
2019 Odessa Production Producer 59
Average
2018 Tutor Production Producer 58
Average
2018 Particle of the Universe Production Producer 69
Fair
2017 The Optimists Production Producer 68
Fair
2016 The Bolshoi Production Producer 59
Average
2014 Vesyolye rebyata;) Production Producer N/A
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2014 The Iron Ivan Production Producer 58
Average
2014 Ladoga Production Producer 68
Fair
2013 The Thaw Production Producer 69
Fair
2013 The Geographer Drank His Globe Away Production Producer 60
Fair
2012 Love the Healing Power Production Producer 59
Average
2011 Payback for Love Production Producer 59
Average
2010 PG 16... Production Producer 58
Average
2010 Detective Agency Ivan da Marya Production Producer N/A
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2010 Kandahar Production Producer 59
Average
2009 PickUp: With no Rules Production Producer 58
Average
2009 Oxygen Production Producer 58
Average
2009 Life on Loan Production Producer N/A
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2009 The Road Leading to Happiness Production Producer 59
Average
2008 Hipsters Production Producer 59
Average
2008 Pobochnyy Effekt Production Producer N/A
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2008 S.S.D. Production Producer 58
Average
2008 Love as a Motive Production Producer 59
Average
2008 A Real Dad Production Producer 58
Average
2008 Swing Production Producer 58
Average
2008 Fathers and Sons Production Producer N/A
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2007 Vice Production Producer 58
Average
2007 Joke Production Producer N/A
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2007 The Vaccine Production Producer N/A
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2007 Nine Days Until Spring Production Producer 58
Average
2007 Styx Production Producer N/A
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2007 Seven Booths Production Producer 58
Average
2007 A Room With a View of the Lights Production Producer N/A
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2006 Countdown Production Producer 58
Average
2006 The Last Bottomhole Production Producer 58
Average
2006 Butterfly Kiss Production Producer 58
Average
2006 Piranha Hunt Production Producer 58
Average
2006 The Count of Montenegro Production Producer 58
Average
2005 The Master and Margarita Production Producer 71
Good
2005 Vocation Production Producer 69
Fair
2004 Red Chapel Production Producer 68
Fair
2004 Men Don't Cry Production Producer 69
Fair
2004 Women in a Game Without Rules Production Producer N/A
N/A
2003 The Idiot Production Producer 72
Good
2002 Brigada Production Producer 73
Good
2002 Lady for One Day Production Producer 58
Average
2002 Tartarin of Tarascon Production Producer 58
Average
2002 Law Production Producer N/A
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2002 The Murderer's Diary Production Producer N/A
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1999 The Admirer Production Producer 59
Average
1997 The Source of Snakes Production Producer 58
Average
1992 Cracked Production Producer 59
Average

Art
2007 Vice Art Art Direction 58
Average

Editing
1999 Woman's Own Editing Editor 58
Average
1996 Queen Margot Editing Editor 67
Fair