Valery Todorovsky’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, wistful, moderate, layered, gritty

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Valery Todorovsky has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
Dir. Alexandr Veledinsky · With Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elena Lyadova, Aleksandr Robak

In this hit Russian musical, a group of friends flaunts Soviet authority in 1950s Moscow by embracing jazz. When Communist Mels falls for Polly, a free-spirited jazz fan, he risks losing his party membership by associating with her rebellious crew.
Dir. Valery Todorovsky · With Anton Shagin, Oksana Akinshina, Maksim Matveev