Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl (; 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.
- 1998: State Prize of the Russian Federation category Literature and Arts for year 1997, for the film White Sun of the Desert
- 2003: Honorary title of People's Artist of Russian Federation
Death
On 5 February 2010, Vladimir Motyl was at home alone when he felt ill. On the same day he was hospitalized in the city clinical hospital No. 67. Initially, he was suspected of a stroke, but in the hospital doctors found a fracture of the cervical vertebrae and pneumonia.
On 21 February 2010 at approximately 11 pm Vladimir Motyl died at the age of 83.