Valery Todorovsky

Producer, Writer, Director, Actor, Editor

May 8, 1962 (64 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • The Iron Ivan
    The Iron Ivan2014

Known For

  • The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
    The Geographer Drank His Globe Away2013
  • Hipsters
    Hipsters2008
  • The Master and Margarita
    The Master and Margarita10 episodes
  • Brigada
    Brigada16 episodes
  • Country of the Deaf
    Country of the Deaf1998
  • The Bolshoi
    The Bolshoi2017
  • The Idiot
    The Idiot10 episodes
  • Kandahar
    Kandahar2010
  • The Thaw
    The Thaw1 season
  • The Lover
    The Lover2002
  • Odessa
    Odessa2019
  • The Source of Snakes
    The Source of Snakes1997
  • Vice
    Vice2007
  • S.S.D.
    S.S.D.2008
  • PG 16...
    PG 16...2010
  • In Two
    In Two1 season
  • The Iron Ivan
    The Iron Ivan2014
  • Kursanty
    Kursanty10 episodes
  • Countdown
    Countdown2006
  • Tutor
    Tutor2018

Filmography

2022
2013
2013
2008
2007
2006
1998
1993
1992
Cynics · as Screenplay
1991
Love · as Screenplay
1991
Sea Wolf · as Screenplay
1990
Морской волк · as Screenplay

2015
2013
Оттепель · as Director
2010
2002
1978
A Strange Woman · as Voloda

2018
Into_nation of Big Odessa · as Himself / Narrator
2012
Urgant Show · as Self - Guest
2009
1993
Chtoby Pomnili · as Self

2024
Adults · as General Producer
2023
Kesha dolzhen umeret · as General Producer
2023
Bizon: Delo manekenshchitsy · as General Producer
2021
Обитель · as General Producer
2019
Odessa · as Idea
2017
Bolshoy · as Story
2007
Vice · as Art Direction