Valery Todorovsky

Valery Todorovsky
Born	Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (1962-05-09) 9 May 1962 Odessa, Ukraine
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (Russian: Вале́рий Петро́вич Тодоро́вский; Ukrainian: Валерій Петрович Тодоровський; born 9 May 1962, Odessa) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, TV producer of Jewish origin.^[1]

Legend has it that Todorovsky was born immediately after his mother watched Hitchcock's Psycho, in 1962. The film did not have an official release in Odessa; rather, it somehow reached Odessa Film Studio, where his father, Piotr Todorovsky, also a film director, was working at the time. ^{[citation needed]}

Among the films he directed is 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, and Hipsters. The Country of Deaf was entered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2]

Of his earlier films, The Hearse (Katafalk) won the Grand Prix at Mannheim (1990) and Love (Lyubov) received Ecumenical Prize at Cannes (1992).^[3] In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival.^[4]

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.

Currently, he is mostly involved with producing TV serials for ORT. ^{[citation needed]} In 2013, Russian TV main channel “Channel 1” showed a serial "The Thaw" (“Оттепель”). 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 Nikita Khruschev’s era. This time is commonly known as “The Thaw”.

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