diff --git a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/PythonPydanticV1ClientCodegen.java b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/PythonPydanticV1ClientCodegen.java
index 08db2c380ac..0c7c0bbc78e 100644
--- a/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/PythonPydanticV1ClientCodegen.java
+++ b/modules/openapi-generator/src/main/java/org/openapitools/codegen/languages/PythonPydanticV1ClientCodegen.java
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class PythonPydanticV1ClientCodegen extends AbstractPythonPydanticV1Codeg
         modelTestTemplateFiles.put("model_test.mustache", ".py");
         apiTestTemplateFiles.put("api_test.mustache", ".py");
 
-        embeddedTemplateDir = templateDir = "python";
+        embeddedTemplateDir = templateDir = "python-pydantic-v1";
 
         modelDocTemplateFiles.put("model_doc.mustache", ".md");
         apiDocTemplateFiles.put("api_doc.mustache", ".md");