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Pyotr Efimovich Todorovsky was born in the Ukrainian outback, into a poor Jewish family. We suffered the famine of very hard. But this was not the only test fate had in store.

August 26, in Ukraine, the Kirovograd region (formerly Zinovievsky district of the USSR), was born Peter Todorovsky - a talented director, composer.

Here sixteen-year-old Petya, who had not yet graduated from school, worked with his father unloading coal at a power plant. At the end of , due to a shift in the front line, we had to move again. This time to the Saratov region Peschaty Mar village. In , the young man entered the Saratov Military School. And in a matter of months he was sent as a commander of a mortar platoon to Belarus.

So Peter found himself on the front line, taking part in several military operations, including the capture of Berlin. He reached the Elbe and from there was discharged due to injury. In the post-war years he served in the Pesochnoye garrison near Kostroma.

Ukrainian-Russian director Pyotr Todorovsky started out as a cinematographer, for example in Marlen Khutsiev's Vesna na Zarechnoi Ulitse/ Springtime on.

In , he retired to the reserves and worked for some time at a glass container factory, while completing his studies at evening school. All these difficult years, the young man dreamed of making films. Pyotr Todorovsky fell in love with his future profession at the front, he was captivated by the work of military operators, and he made a wish - he would stay alive, he would definitely master this craft.

After graduating from the institute, he made his debut as a cameraman at the Chisinau film studio of newsreels and documentaries.