Vladimir Krasnopolskiy

• Name — Vladimir Krasnopolsky • Birth Name — Vladimir Arkadyevich Krasnopolsky • Born — 14 June 1933 • Birthplace — Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 23 September 2022 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Occupation — Film director Screenwriter • Education — Ural State University Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography • Relatives — Valery Uskov (second cousin)

Krasnopolsky was born in Sverdlovsk on 14 June 1933 to artist Arkady Vladimirovich Krasnopolsky. In 1955, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at Ural State University and from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1963. From 1961 to 1963, he was director of the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. In 1964, he became director of Mosfilm. In 1971, he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1963 to 2015, he directed and wrote all of his films alongside his second cousin, Valery Uskov. They went their separate ways in 2016. Krasnopolsky died in Moscow on 23 September 2022, at the age of 89.

• The Slowest Train (1963) • Stewardess (1967) • Not Under the Jurisdiction (1969) • Shadows Disappear at Noon (1971) • Eternal Call (1973) • Night Fun (1991) • The Thief (1994 film) (1994) • Yermak (1996 film) (1996) • Detectives (TV series) (2001) • Provintsialy (2002) • Unlicensed Detective (2003) • Pautina (2007) • The Ermolovs (2009) • Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time (2009) • House with Lilies (2014)

• Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1978) • USSR State Prize (1979) • Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980) • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1983) • Order of Honour (1997) • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (2004)