Valery Todorovsky
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский, Ukrainian: Валерій Петрович Тодоровський; born 9 May 1962) is a celebrated Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer. A member of a prominent dynasty of filmmakers, he is the son of Pyotr Todorovsky and the father of Pyotr Todorovsky Jr.
Also recorded as Valery Petrovich Todorovsky
Valery Todorovsky

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- Born
- 1962. · Odesa.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- film director, screenwriter, film producer and actor.
- Fields
- film production and film direction.
- Education
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.
- Teachers
- Kira Paramonova.
- Honours
- Russian Federation's Government Award, Medal of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 1st class, Government Prize of the Russian Federation, Nika Award, Golden Eagle Awards and TEFI.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский, Ukrainian: Валерій Петрович Тодоровський; born 9 May 1962) is a celebrated Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer. A member of a prominent dynasty of filmmakers, he is the son of Pyotr Todorovsky and the father of Pyotr Todorovsky Jr.
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Valery Todorovsky (born 1962) is an actor, film director and film producer, among other activities, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The actor was born in Odesa.
Valery Todorovsky was educated at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Activity centred on film direction and film production.
Languages used include Russian. Honours include Golden Eagle Awards, Golden ram and Government Prize in Culture, among others.
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Early years and family
Early years and family
Valery Todorovsky studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Training under Kira Paramonova is recorded. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is film production and film direction. Distinctions recorded are Russian Federation's Government Award, Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class, Government Prize of the Russian Federation and Nika Award.
Valery Todorovsky was born in Odesa on 8 May 1962, to a prominent Soviet film director Pyotr Todorovsky and his wife Mira, née German. As recalled by Todorovsky, he practically grew up on set as he always followed his father at work. He played his first role in cinema when he was still a schoolboy. When he was 10, the family moved to Moscow. Following in his father's footsteps, Todorovsky sought to enter the directing department of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, but failed twice. On his third attempt, he enrolled in the scriptwriting course and graduated in 1984. He emerged as a screenwriter with the movie The Double, co-written with Andris Kolbergs.
Cinema
Cinema
His directorial debut, The Hearse (Katafalk), won the Grand Prix at Mannheim (1990). Released in 1991, Todorovsky's sophomore feature Love became a break-through and brought him the Ecumenical Prize at Cannes (1992), as well as awards at Sozvezdie, Chicago, Geneva, San Sebastian and Montpellier Film Festivals. His 1994 noir drama Katya Ismailova, starring Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, is a modern adaptation of Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. The movie was well received by critics and audience and won 5 Nika Awards, including Best Director. One of Todorovsky's most known works is a 1998 drama The Country of Deaf, written by actress and director Renata Litvinova and based on her own novella To Have and to Belong, became a big success and reached cult status. The film was selected for the 48th Berlin International Film Festival in 1998, it won several Nikas (for Best Female Actor (Dina Korzun) and Best Sound Design (Gleb Kravetsky).) and Best Films Award at the 1998 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards. An intense drama, it portrayed the world devoid of love, where love was substituted with erotic obsession or becomes a prey to financial interests. In 1999 Todorovsky was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. His 2008 musical film Hipsters became widely popular in Russia, grossed $16 mln and won the Golden Eagle Award and Nika Award for Best Film. Though it couldn’t target foreign audiences on the same level as Russian, the movie was released internationally, screened at several festivals and collected a series of awards, including the Black Pearl narrative film award in 2009 at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. After the success of the Hipsters, Todorovsky returned to the 1960s in Russia with two TV series, The Thaw and the Optimists, both well received by the audience and critically acclaimed.
TV and producing
TV and producing
Since the 1990s, Todorovsky has also been active as a producer, his credits include dozens of TV series and feature films. Among others, he co-produced the Russian gangster TV series Brigada (2002) and the 2005 TV adaptation of the Master and Margarita for Telekanal Rossiya, detective series Vorona in 2018 for NTV channel. In 2013, Todorovsky debuted as TV series director with The Thaw, a melodrama about life in the Soviet Union during the early years of Nikita Khrushchev's era. Since 2018, he has been the director of ‘Pilot’ youth film festival. In 2022, his drama In Two premiered on a Russian streaming service More.tv, it starred Alexander Petrov, Danila Kozlovsky, and Irina Starshenbaum.
Personal life
Personal life
Todorovsky was married for 20 years to Natalya Tokareva, the couple had a daughter Ekaterina and a son, Pyotr Jr. His son from the first marriage, Pyotr Todorovsky Jr., emerged as a successful film director. Valery Todorovsky was married by second marriage to actress Evgeniya Brik, with whom he had a daughter Zoya, born in 2009 in Los Angeles. The couple lived in the USA and occasionally returned to Russia for work. Brik died from cancer in 2022.
Director
Director
1990 – Katafalk 1991 – Love 1994 – Katya Ismailova 1998 – The Country of Deaf 2002 – The Lover 2004 – My Step Brother Frankenstein 2007 – Vice 2008 – Hipsters 2013 – The Thaw TV series 2017 – Bolshoi 2019 – Odesa 2020 – Hypnosis 2022 – In Two TV series
Producer
Producer
1999-2000 – Kamenskaya (TV series) 2003 – The Idiot 2006 – Piranha 2006 – Kiss of a Butterfly 2006 – Filipp's Bay 2008 – S. S. D. 2009 – Oxygen 2014 – Chagall — Malevich 2014 – Iron Ivan 2021 – The Danube 2023 - Actresses
Screenwriter
1991 – Cynics 1992 – Over the Dark Water 2013 – The Geographer Drank His Globe Away
Literature
Taylor, Richard (2000). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. British Film Institute. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-83871-849-7. Bueno Alonso, Jorge L. (2024). Teaching Shakespeare in Film and the Arts Today: Models, Methods, Materials. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-0364-1480-1. Lawton, Anna M. (2004). Imaging Russia 2000: Film and Facts. New Academia Publishing. p. 148. ISBN 0-9744934-2-2.

Valery Todorovsky, Maxim Matveev, and Bulldog Filya with his trainer in Independence avenue, Minsk (production of "Stilyagi")
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- 1.TASS. Valery Petrovich Todorovsky.
- 2.Mir24. К юбилею Валерия Тодоровского: восемь интересных фактов из жизни знаменитого режиссера.
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- 5.Wettbewerb/In Competition. Moving Pictures, Berlinale Extra. 34. 11–22 February 1998.
- 6.Bronner, S.J. Jewishness: Expression, Identity and Representation. Liverpool University Press. 180. 2008. 978-1-909821-01-9.
- 7.Beumers, Birgit. "The Lover", Dir. Valeri Todorovsky (Russia, 2002). ArtMargins. 2002-08-16.
- 8.Cockrell, Eddie. The Lover. Variety. 2002-10-01.
- 9.Unifrance. Katia Ismaïlova.
- 10.Time Out. Katia Ismaïlova. 2012-09-10.
- 11.Nesselson, Lisa. Katia Ismailova. Variety. 1994-05-30.
- 12.Berlinale: 1998 Programme. berlinale.de.
- 13.Лауреаты Национальной кинематографической премии "НИКА" за 1998 год. Nika Award.
- 14.Unifrance. Land Of The Deaf People.
- 15.21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999). MIFF.
- 16.Khachatourian, Maane. Jacki Weaver to Lead Abu Dhabi Fest's Narrative Competition Jury. Variety. 2013-10-24.
- 17.Felperin, Leslie. Hipsters. Variety. 2009-05-18.
- 18.Muchnik, Andrey. Russia's 'Mad Men': The Soviet New Wave Meets Hollywood. The Moscow Times. 2017-05-15.
- 19.Roth, Andrew. These Russian TV operatives aren't 'The Americans' but they were created by one. The Washington Post. 2017-05-15.
- 20.Idov, Michael. My Accidental Career as a Russian Screenwriter. The NY Times. 2016-01-07.
- 21.Sikova, Tatiana. После смерти Евгении Брик от онкологии ее муж Валерий Тодоровский стал седым: режиссер появился на видео в США. The Voice. 2023-06-24.
- 22.Yakubovskaya, Valentina. Режиссер из семьи режиссера. 8 фактов из биографии Валерия Тодоровского. Moskovsky Komsomolets. 2022-05-08.
- 23.Hello!. Евгения Брик об "Оттепели", дочери и жизни в Лос-Анджелесе. 2014-01-02.
- 24.Stolitsa Onego. Дочка российского режиссера Валерия Тодоровского прославилась в США. 2017-06-01.
- 25.KP. Скрывала страшную болезнь, увела Тодоровского из семьи: звезда "Оттепели" Евгения Брик умерла в 40 лет. 2022-01-11.
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