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Memory. Valery Todorovsky
On May 8, 1962, Valery Todorovsky, screenwriter, film director, producer was born.
Personal business
Valery Petrovich Todorovsky (52 years old) was born in Odessa, in the family of film director Peter Efimovich (“Beloved woman of the mechanic Gavrilov”, “Military Field Roman”, “Interdaeum”) and the worlds of Grigoryevna Todorovsky. In 1984 he graduated from the Faculty of Faculty of VGIK (he did not enter the directorial). As the director made his debut in 1991 by the film "Love", shot in his own scenario. The film was opened by the audience of actor Evgeny Mironov. In the 1990s, when the first independent studios began to be created, Todorovsky, together with friends, created the production project “TTL” (according to the first letters of last names: Todorovsky, Tolstunov, Livnev). He produced the series "Brigade", "Kamenskaya", "Idiot", "Master and Margarita", as well as his films. In 1998, he shot the “Country of the Deaf” with Chulpan Khamatova and Dina Korzun in the lead roles. Of the last sensational works - the film "Shtilyaga" (2008) and the television series "Thaw" (2013).
It has three children from two marriages. The eldest son Peter is 27 years old, he is a journalist by education, is currently studying at directorial courses and writes scripts. Daughter Katya (18 years old) ends the first course of Jonya at Moscow State University. The youngest daughter of Zoe is 4 years old. Married to the theater and film actress Evgenia Hirivskaya (pseudonym Evgenia Brik).
In the 2012 presidential election, he was a confidant of presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov .
What is famous
He took off the “thaw” (2013), “dudes” (2008), “Country of the Deaf” (1998). In addition to these works, he produced the films “Shagal - Malevich”, “Geographer Globus drank” (both 2013), “Kandahar” (2010), two seasons of Kamenskaya (2002 and 2003), the film “Brigade” (2002) and many other film works. Four times (1994, 1998, 2002, 2008) was nominated for the Nick Award “For the best work of the director”.
What you need to know about
Todorovsky never sought to be an actor, but at the age of fourteen his debut took place in the film "Strange Woman". Another time, a friend and colleague of Todorovsky , Alexei Balabanov, approved him for a large role in his painting “American”. However, after some time the film was closed.
Father, the famous director Peter Todorovsky, always took a little son for filming. In the pavilions of the film studio, the boy liked the situation and the fact that his dad leads the whole process. “I wanted to become the same as dad. My father, when he found out about this, said that I could not count on his help. He felt a future competitor in me. A joke, ” recalls Valery Todorovsky.
Direct speech:
Valery TodorovskyValery Todorovsky about the actors : “At the moment when I invited the wife of Mironov, he was an unknown artist. The same thing happened with Chulpan Khamatova, and with Dina Korzun, and with Maxim Sukhanov. I do not shoot fashionable artists, I enter them into fashion. Ingeboga Dapkunaite was a famous actress. But four years before the evenings near Moscow, she left for London and lived there. It never occurred to anyone that it could be called and removed. So this role is also my micro opening. From this moment, a new stage of her career in Russia began. She became our star. "
About television series and cinema: “I determine this for myself: there are“ transformers ”, and there is art house, most often inexpensive, festival, in the hope of success. Cinema is the present is between. Its people will watch after 20 years, this is an honest art, while accessible to people. This middle begins to die. These are not "transformers", and adolescents will not go to it with popcorn. But this will not be taken to the film festival, because there is no special sophisticated form or revolutionary solutions. In America, this middle moves to television - to the series. But these are grades of class "A", elite series, which are made by large artists. The best screenwriters rushed there because they can do what they love there, they do not need to come up with about robots. I talked with an outstanding person Matthew Wayner, the creator of the series "Mad men". And when I asked him: "How did you come up with this story about advertisers?" - He said: "I grew up in the family of an advertiser. I went into the office to my dad - they sat, all smoked, and composed an advertisement for Lucky Strike." In this sense, we are very far behind: what today is called the word "series" is most often a kind of filling in the broadcast so that people can drink tea, talk and look out of the corner of their eyes. And you can already do things more serious. But yet, apparently, time has not come. ”
About work on the “thaw” with Konstantin Ernst: “I am a decent person. Therefore, before starting shooting, I came to Konstantin Lvovich and said: "Smoking?" He said, "Yes." I said: "Mat?" He said: "No." "Nude?" "In the framework". "
5 facts about Valeria Todorovsky
- The son of one of the most famous domestic directors
- From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the board of the film studio. Gorky
- He claims that filmmakers do not age: “They are young, and then they just die at some point. And filmmakers do not retire - they are trying to write, take off until the very last day. "
- “To shoot a series is a very hard work. You must shoot a lot per day. And the schedule is that if you get down for at least one day, a disaster begins, it is impossible to reduce artists. This is a hellish machine that you climb into and you cannot stop "
- Smokes, drinks alcohol and does not play sports
Valery Todorovsky on Polit.ru:
Valery Todorovsky produces the film on the book about the hacker
Other materials:
Article about Valeria Todorovsky on Wikipedia
Article about Valeria Todorovsky on "Around TV"
Interview in the program "Looking at night"
Valery Todorovsky: "Cinema must be done honestly, dignified and talented"