Valery Todorovsky

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Todorovsky.
Valery Todorovsky
Born
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky

(1962-05-09) 9 May 1962 (age 62)
Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
CitizenshipSoviet Union (1962–1991)
Russia (1991–present)
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, TV producer
Spouse
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(m. 2006; died 2022)​
FatherPyotr Todorovsky

Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский, Ukrainian: Валерій Петрович Тодоровський; born 9 May 1962, in Odesa) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer whose best known film is Hipsters (2008). He is the son of Pyotr Todorovsky.

Cinema

Of his earlier films, The Hearse (Katafalk) won the Grand Prix at Mannheim (1990) and Love (Lyubov) received Ecumenical Prize at Cannes (1992),[1] and won awards at Sozvezdie, Chicago, Geneva and Montpellier Film Festivals.[2]

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.[3]

In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.[4]

His 2008 musical film Hipsters won the Golden Eagle Award and Nika Award for Best Film.[citation needed]

TV

Valery Todorovsky (morda Ryazanskaya) 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.

Todorovsky produced the NTV detective series Vorona in 2018.

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.

Personal life

Valery Todorovsky was married to actress Evgeniya Brik, with whom he had a daughter, born in 2009 in Los Angeles.[5] Brik died from cancer in 2022.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Wettbewerb/In Competition". Moving Pictures, Berlinale Extra. Berlin: 34. 11–22 February 1998.
  2. ^ Bronner, S.J. (2008). Jewishness: Expression, Identity and Representation. Jewish Cultural Studies. Liverpool University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-909821-01-9. Retrieved 20 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Berlinale: 1998 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
  4. ^ "21st Moscow International Film Festival (1999)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
  5. ^ "Евгения Брик об "Оттепели", дочери и жизни в Лос-Анджелесе" (in Russian). Hello!. 2 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Скрывала страшную болезнь, увела Тодоровского из семьи: звезда "Оттепели" Евгения Брик умерла в 40 лет" (in Russian). KP. 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.