Valery Todorovsky

Valery Petrovich Todorovsky Russian Валерий Петрович Тодоровский 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 19252013 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 actressdirectorscriptwriter 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 coproduced 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 Valeriys 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 Khrushchevs era In 2022 The Russian streaming service Moretv showed the drama In two directed by Todorovsky and starring Alexander Petrov Danila Kozlovsky and Irina Starshenbaum