Vladimir Arkadyevich Krasnopolsky (Russian: Влади́мир Арка́дьевич Краснопо́льский; 14 June 1933 – 23 September 2022) was a Russian film director, producer, and screenwriter.
[2] In 1955, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at Ural State University and from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 1963.
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 [ru].
Krasnopolsky died in Moscow on 23 September 2022, at the age of 89.