Director PETR TODOROVSKY
During the celebration of the director’s
70-th anniversary in 1995 one well- known critic wrote: “Petr Todorovsky has
reserved a reputation of a good man and a good director what in itself is a
rarity in a creative circles/ As far as the number “70” is concerned although it
is fixed officially one might as well doubt in its reality seeing how much the
director is active in his creative life. May be Todorovsky has kept his free
breathing because he has not usually hurried anywhere, neither rushed in front
of progress. And he was one of the few who in the 80-es could avoid a canonized
platitude of so called “popular cinematography” though he really created
profitable hits”.
All Todorovsky’s pictures have an
inherent peculiar timidity in relation to life, to the heroes. The director has
his own hand, own voice, own intonation.
His creative work is turned toward the human
being, its inner essence, toward those ethic norms which personality moral
foundation is built on.
…Petr Todorovsky was born on the
26 of August 1925. He was 19-year old youth when he went to the front as a
platoon commander, awarded with three Orders of The Patriotic War of the First
and Second grade. Just being at the front he was conquered with the work of
military cameramen and then he thought ahead that if he survived he would master
this profession without fail.
Petr Todorovsky’s dream
came true. In the early 50-es he graduated from the Cameramen Faculty of The
All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow and then he has worked
near ten years as a cameraman at the movie studio in the city of Odessa.After
that Todorovsky became a director, a script writer and a music author of his own
films.
As a cameraman he shot pictures “MOLDAVIAN TUNES”
(the “Moldova-Film Studio), “SPRING ON ZARECHNAYA STREET”, “TWO FEDORS”,
“THIRST”, “NEVER”. In the last picture produceht;bccthd in 1963 Todorovsry acted
as a co-director.
In 1970 he acted in one of the leading
parts of Marlen Khutsyev’s picture “IT WAS THE MONTH OF MAY”.
