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Vladimir Motyl (Russian: Влади́мир Я́ковлевич Моты́ль) (26 June 1927 – 21 February 2010) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter.

Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepiel, Belarus. His father was a Polish émigré, who was arrested in 1930 and sent to Solovki and died there the following year. Many of his other relatives suffered similar treatment. Vladimir and his mother were exiled to the Northern Urals, where he became fascinated in theatre and cinema, and later graduated from the Sverdlovsk Theatrical Institute. For about 10 years he worked in various theatres in the Urals and Siberia and eventually became chief director of Sverdlovsk Young Spectator's Theatre.

He decided to start afresh in cinema, despite having no technical qualifications. Eventually he directed his first film, Children of Pamirs (1963) (Detyi Pamira/Дети Памира) in Tajikistan. This work was met with public success, as well as earning him the State Prize of Tajik SSR (1964), and the title of honorary citizen of Dushanbe (1977).

His next film Zhenya, Zhenechka, and "Katyusha" (1967) (Женя, Женечка и "Катюша"), a romantic comedy/drama set in 1944, was warmly accepted by the public as well, but earned the displeasure of the Soviet agitprop for "disrespectful" treatment of the second world war theme, and the director fell into disfavor.

Nevertheless, he was invited to direct a film which was to become one of the most popular Soviet cult films, the "Red Western" (or technically, "Ostern") White Sun of the Desert. Notably, this film has a strong theme about exile, as its protagonist, Sukhov finds himself waylaid in Central Asia when trying to return home.

For his work, Motyl received numerous awards. wiki

Director (11 credits)
2010 Bagrovyy tsvet snegopada
1996 Nesut menya koni
1991 Rasstanemsya - poka khoroshie
1987 Veliky Vanya (TV Movie)
1987 Zhil-byl Shishlov (TV Movie)
1984 Neveroyatnoye pari, ili istinnoye proisshestviye, blagopoluchno zavershivsheyesya sto let nazad (TV Movie)
1980 Les
1975 Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya
1970 El sol blanco del desierto (Beloe solntse pustyni)
1967 Zhenya, Zhenechka i 'Katyusha'
1963 Deti Pamira
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OK Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya (Vladimir Motyl, 1975)
OK Beloe solnce pustyni (Vladimir Motyl, 1970)