Igor Tolstunov

Igor Tolstunov was born on 30 January 1957 in Moscow. In 1978 he graduated from the Economics Department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK); he started his career as deputy director and director of film crews at the Gorky Film Studio (on the films Peter’s Youth, In the Beginning of the Glorious Deeds (both directed by S. Gerasimov, 1980) TASS is Authorized to Announce (television serial, 1984) Peter the Great (NBC, USA, 1983).

From 1990 to 1995 he served as executive director of TTL-Films. Since 1995 he owns and heads PROFIT (Igor Tolstunov Production Company), an independent film production company.

From 1995 until 2005 he was Director General of the film company NTV-PROFIT.

Since 2000 he heads the Department of Film and TV Production and Management at the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors in Moscow.

From 2002 until 2006 he has been Deputy Director for in-house production of the television channel STS (CTC).

Membership in Professional and Public Organizations: European Film Academy (Felix Award); Russian National Film Academy (Nika Award), Russian Academy of Television (TEFI Award), Managing Board of the Russian Union of Filmmakers, Managing Board of the Russian Producer’s Guild.

From 2005 until 2010 he was the General Producer of the Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr.

In 2005 he initiated the creation of the debut film studio "Proba" (under the aegis of the Russian Producer’s Guild), where beginning cinematographers could make their first films.

In 2005 Igor Tolstunov was included in the top five film producers "with perspective" by the Forbes magazine.

Full-Length Feature Films

1991: "Love" (directed by Valeri Todorovsky)
1991: "Kiks" ("Cracked" directed by Sergei Livnev)
1993: "Dreams of an Idiot" (directed by Vasili Pichul)
1994: "Katya Ismailova" ("Moscow Nights", directed by Valeri Todorovsky)
1997: "Three Stories" (directed by Kira Muratova )
1997: "The Thief" (directed by Pavel Chukhrai)
1997: "The Sympathy Seeker" ("The Orphan of Kazan", directed by Vladimir Mashkov)
1998: "The Circus Burnt and the Clowns have Gone" (directed by Vladimir Bortko)
1998: "Two Moons, Three Suns" (directed by Roman Balayan): co-producer with Alexander Rodniansky
1998: "I Want To Go To Prison" (directed by Alla Surikova): co-producer with Mikhail Zilberman
1999: "It is Easy to Die" (directed by Alexander Khvan): co-producer with Grigori Ryazhsky, Sergei Kovzlov
1999: "Mama" (directed by Denis Yevstigneev): co-producer with Konstantin Ernst, Denis Yevstigneegv
1999: "The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment" (directed by Stanislav Govorukhin): co-producer with Sergei Kozlov
1999: "East-West" (directed by Regis Wargnier): co-producer with Yves Marmion
1999: "The Admirer" (directed by Nikolai Lebedev): co-producer with Valeri Todorovsky, Sergei Kozlov
1999: "The Recluse" (directed by Yegor Konchalovsky)
2000: "Lunar Daddy" (directed by Bakhtiyer Khudoinazarov): co-producer with Karl Baumgaertner
2000: "The Captain's Daughter" [Russkii Bunt] (directed by Alexander Proshkin)
2000: "24 Hours" (directed by Alexander Atanesyan)
2000: "One Shouldn't Offend Women" (directed by Valeri Akhadov)
2000: "Give Me the Moonlight" (directed by Dmitri Astrakhan)
2001: "Come and Look at Me" (directed by Mikhail Agranovich and Oleg Yankovsky)
2001: "Let’s Make Love" (directed by Denis Yevstigneev): co-producer with Alexander Atanesyan
2002: "Summer Rain" (directed by Alexander Atanesyan): co-producer with Alexander Atanesyan
2002: "The Little Lord’s Joys and Sorrows" (directed by Ivan Popov): co-producer with Alexander Atanesyan
2004: "A Driver for Vera" (directed by Pavel Chukhrai): co-producer with Alexander Rodniansky
2004: "Daddy" [Papa] (directed by Vladimir Mashkov): co-producer with Vladimir Mashkov
2005: "The Soldiers’ Decameron" (directed by Andrei Proshkin): co-producer with Alexander Rodniansky
2006: "Piter FM" (directed by Oksana Bychkova): co-producer with Alexander Rodniansky
2007: "May" (directed by Ilya Rubinstein, Marat Rafikov)
2007: "Kruzhovnik" (directed by Arvo Ikho)
2007: "Travelling with Pets" (directed by Vera Storozheva): co-producer with Sabina Yeremeeva
2007: "Cheescake" (directed by Eugene Evdakov)
2008: "Everybody Dies But Me" (directed by Valeria Gai-Germanika)
2008: "New Year Tariff" (directed by Yevgeni Bedarev)
2009: "The Stranger" (directed by Anton Bormatov)
2010: "About love" (directed by Olga Subbotina)
2011: "On the hook" (directed by Natalia Uglitskikh)
2011: "The raider" (directed by Vsevolod Aravin)

Films in Production

"Africa" (directed by Yana Poliarush)
"The metro" (directed by Anton Megerdichev)
"Moscow 400" (directed by Pavel Chukhrai)

TV Films and Series

2000: "The Bourgeois’ Birthday" 15 series (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2001: "The Bourgeois’ Birthday – 2" 15 series (directed by Anatoliy Mateshko)
2001: "The Keys to Death" 8 series (directed by Vsevolod Plotkin)
2003: "Amateur Private Investigator Dasha Vasilieva" 15 episodes (project "Daria Dontsova’s Detectives on Screen" ; directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2003: "Yevlampia Romanova. Investigation Conducted by a Dilettante" 15 series (project "Daria Dontsova’s Detectives on Screen"; directed by Vladimir Morozov)
2004: "Companions of the Sea-Star" 10 series (directed by Yevgeni Zvezdakov)
2004: "Amateur Private Investigator Dasha Vasilieva – 2" . 15 series (directed by Oleg Fesenko)
2004: "Yevlampia Romanova. Investigation Conducted by a Dilettante - 2" 15 series (directed by Vladimir Morozov)
2004: "Viola Tarakanova. In the World of Criminal Passions" 15 series (project "Daria Dontsova’s Detectives on Screen"; directed by Vladimir Shchegolkov)
2005: "The Maker of More Misery" . 15 series (directed by Oleg Fesenko)
2005: "Amateur Private Investigator Dasha Vasilieva- 3" . 15 series (directed by Andrei Marmontov)
2005: "Amateur Private Investigator Dasha Vasilieva – 4" . 15 series (directed by Igor Muzhzhukhin)
2005: "Viola Tarakanova. In the World of Criminal Passions – 2" . 15 series (directed by Natalia Khlopetskaya)
2005: "New Russian Romance" . 12 series (directed by Andrei Prachenko)
2005: "Clowns are not Killed" . 8 series (directed by Sergei Borchukov)
2005: "Young and Happy" . 12 series (directed by Valeri Zelensky)
2005: "Great Evil and Little Dirty Tricks" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present"). 4 series (directed by Elena Zhigaeva)
2005: "My Personal Enemy" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present"). 4 series (directed by Vladimir Popkov)
2005: "The Myth about an Ideal Man" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present"). 4 series (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2005: "A Friend with a Special Mission" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present"). 4 series (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2006: "The Gromovs" 36 series (directed by Alexander Baranov, Bakhyt Kilibayev)
2006: "The Nuthouse" 12 episodes (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2007: "Dowered with a Phantom House" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present") .4 episodes (directed by Viacheslav Kreshtofovich)
2007: "A Travellers’ Bag with a Bright Future" (project "Tatiana Ustinova and STS present"). 4 episodes (directed by Viacheslav Kreshtofovich)
2007: "The Battle of Ladybirds" (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2007: "A Taxi for an Angel" (directed by Anatoli Mateshko)
2008: "The healer"

Documentaries

1991: "A Long Way from Friul" (directed by Alexander Mariamov)
1991: "Little Israel" (directed by Svetlana Rezvushkina)
1991: "And all the Love..." (directed by Ekaterina Pravdina)
1997: "The Master's House" (directed by Marianna Kireyeva and Alexander Iskin)

MAIN AWARDS

1992 "Golden Aries" Award – "Best young film industry businessman of the year"
1994 "Green Apple – Green Leaf" Award – "Best young producer of the year"
1997 "Golden Aries" Award – "Producer of the year"
1997 Russian National Film Academy NIKA Award - "Best film" (The Thief)
1997 Venice International Film Festival (The Thief)
* President of the Italian Senate’s Gold Medal
* Prize of the International Youth Jury
* UNICEF Award.
1998 Academy Award Nominee "Oscar" – "Best Foreign Language Film" (The Thief)
1998 Golden Globe Nominee – "Best Foreign Language Film" (The Thief)
1998 European Film Academy Felix Nominee – "Best European Film" (The Thief)
1999 Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) award for "outstanding achievements in the development of independent Russian film production"
1999 TEFI Award (Russian Academy of Television) – "Best TV documentary" for the film "The Master’s House" about Sergey Eisenstein
1999 Open Russian film festival for CIS and Baltic States "Kinoshock" – "Best producer" (The Admirer)
2000 Academy Award Nominee "Oscar" – "Best Foreign Language Film" (East-West)
2000 Nomination for NIKA Award – "Best film" (The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment)
2000 Main Prize of Kinotavr (Golden Rose) – Lunar Daddy
2003 Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Producers’ Jury Prize– "Best producer project" for The Happiness and Sadness of the Little Lord
2004 Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Main Award (Golden Rose), and Producer’s Guild Award for "Best Production" for A Driver for Vera
2004 Moscow International Film Festival – "Audience Choice Award" for Daddy
2005 "Golden Eagle" Award (National Academy of Motion Picture Art of Russia) – "Best Actress", "Best Supporting Actor" for A Driver for Vera
2005 "Golden Eagle" Award (National Academy of Motion Picture Art of Russia) – "Best Production Design" for Daddy
2005 NIKA award for The Opening of the Year (Alyona Babenko, A Driver for Vera); Best Film Music (Eduard Artemiev, A Driver for Vera).
2007 Moscow International Film Festival, Main Award (Saint George) – Travelling with Pets
2008: 61-th Cannes Festival – Prize of young Jury - Everybody Dies But Me
2008: Special Prize of "Golden camera" Jury - Everybody Dies But Me
2008: Prize of Munich International Film Festival - Everybody Dies But Me
2008: Brussels International Film Festival - "Best Actress" (Polina Filonenko, Olga Shuvalova, Agniya Kuznetsova) - Everybody Dies But Me
2010: TEFI (Russian National Television Award) - "Producer of the series" (Igor Tolstunov) - The school