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The Star of Captivating Happiness
The Star of Captivating Happiness
Directed by	Vladimir Motyl
Written by	Vladimir Motyl; Oleg Osetinsky [ru]; Mark Zakharov
Starring	Igor Kostolevsky; Irina Kupchenko; Aleksey Batalov; Natalya Bondarchuk; Oleg Strizhenov
Cinematography	Dmitriy Meshiev
Edited by	Ye. Sadovskaya
Music by	Isaak Schwarz
Production; company	Lenfilm
Release date	November 11, 1975;
Running time	167 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

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The Star of Captivating Happiness (Russian: «Звезда пленительного счастья», romanized: Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya) is a 1975 Soviet historical romance.^[1] The title is an allusion to a line from the poem To Chaadayev by Alexander Pushkin.^[2] It is a drama with the dedication "to the women of Russia".

Plot

The story is set in the aftermath of the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. The revolt is suppressed, the investigation proceeds, and five Decembrists are executed. Other military officers involved are sentenced to exile in Siberia, leaving their wives, known as the Decembrists' women (Dekabristki), to decide whether to follow them.

In the center of the plot is the fate of Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and his beloved, French seamstress Polina Gueble, whose exile to Siberia unexpectedly provides a chance for them to find happiness together. Polina, without title or wealth, works in a fashionable shop in Moscow, and their marriage would have been impossible before the uprising. After Annenkov’s arrest, trial, and sentence to exile, Polina relentlessly pursues permission to join him, ultimately overcoming resistance from Annenkov’s proud mother and the emperor himself. Alongside Polina are Ekaterina Trubetskaya, who fights for the right to join her husband, Sergei Trubetskoy, out of deep mutual love, and Maria Volkonskaya, who follows her husband to Siberia despite having married him under family pressure. Through flashbacks, the film recounts moments of the Decembrists' lives, including the uprising, trial, and consequences, all while highlighting the sacrifices and resolve of these remarkable women.

Cast

Irina Kupchenko as Princess Ekaterina Ivanovna Trubetskaya
Aleksey Batalov as Prince Sergei Trubetskoy
Natalya Bondarchuk as Princess Mariya Volkonskaya
Oleg Strizhenov as Prince Sergey Volkonsky
Eva Shikulskaya as Polina Göbl-Annenkova, in marriage Praskovya Yegorovna
Igor Kostolevsky as Ivan Aleksandrovich Annenkov, Decembrist, cavalergard
Lev Ivanov as Nikolay Raevsky, a general from the cavalry (not in the credits)
Raisa Kurkina as Sofya Alekseevna Raevskaya, the wife of NN Raevsky
Tatyana Pankova as Anna Annenkova, the mother of IA Annenkov
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov as Pavel Pestel
Victor Kostetskiy as Pyotr Kakhovsky
Yuri Rodionov as Sergey Muravyov-Apostol
Oleg Yankovsky as Kondraty Ryleyev
Tatyana Fedorova as Natalia Ryleeva, the wife of KF Ryleev
Vasily Livanov as Emperor Nicholas I
Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Ivan Bogdanovich Zeidler, Irkutsk Governor
Vladislav Strzhelchik as Count Laval
Dmitry Shilko as Count Mikhail Miloradovich, St. Petersburg Governor-General
Igor Dmitriev as Count Lebzeltern, Austrian Envoy in St. Petersburg
Boris Dubensky as Emperor Alexander I
Victor Terekhov as Vasily Vasilyevich Levashov, Adjutant-General
Vadim Makarovsky as Vosh
Arkady Trusov as Fedor, valet Annenkov
Mikhail Kokshenov as Nikita, servant of Annenkov-senior
Aleksei Kozhevnikov as Paphnutius, servant of Zeidler

Production

After making the 1970 hit film White Sun of the Desert, Motyl received no directorial projects for five years.

When Motyl got the green light from Goskino to make a film about the Decembrists, he still had problems and had to do many rewrites because the authorities believed that the picture had too many parallels to the Soviet regime and allusions about Soviet dissidents.

Nevertheless, the screenplay was rejected. Then Motyl went to Leningrad, to the regional party committee. He handed the script to the secretary on ideology; the woman did not have time to read it and instead gave the text to her daughter who ended up adoring it. The mother called Filipp Yermash [ru], Soviet Minister of Cinematography and declared that "The Leningrad Regional Committee is interested in the film about the Decembrists!" Thus the script got to Lenfilm, but the budget was cut to 1.5 million rubles from the initial 3.5 million.^[3]^[4]

The locations of the film included the Peterhof Palace and the Winter Palace.^[5]

References

^ "Звезда пленительного счастья. Х/ф". Russia-K.
^ К Чедаеву (Пушкин) (in Russian) – via Wikisource.
^ ""Звезда пленительного счастья", или как судьбу легендарного фильма решили д". Argumenty i Fakty. 21 December 2010.
^ "Звезда пленительного счастья". VokrugTV.
^ ""Звезда пленительного счастья". Сорок лет на экране". Культура.рф. culture.ru.

External links

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[1] "Звезда пленительного счастья. Х/ф". Russia-K.

[2] К Чедаеву (Пушкин) (in Russian) – via Wikisource.

[3] ""Звезда пленительного счастья", или как судьбу легендарного фильма решили д". Argumenty i Fakty. 21 December 2010.

[4] "Звезда пленительного счастья". VokrugTV.

[5] ""Звезда пленительного счастья". Сорок лет на экране". Культура.рф. culture.ru.

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-| name           = The Captivating Star of Happiness
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 | cinematography = [[Dmitriy Meshiev (cinematographer)|Dmitriy Meshiev]]
 | editing        = Ye. Sadovskaya
-| studio         = [[Lenfilm]]<br>Creative Association "No.2"
+| studio         = [[Lenfilm]]
+| distributor    =
-| distributor    = [[State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union|Gosteleradio]]
-| released       = {{Start date|1975|11|11}}
+| released       = {{Film date|1975|11|11}}
-| runtime        = 167 minutes
+| runtime        = 167 min.
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+| language       = Russian
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-'''The Captivating Star of Happiness''' or '''The Star of Fascinating Happiness''' ({{lang-ru|Звезда пленительного счастья|Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya}}) is a 1975 [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[historical drama]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvkultura.ru/brand/show/brand_id/24118/|publisher=[[Russia-K]]|title=Звезда пленительного счастья. Х/ф}}</ref>
+'''''The Star of Captivating Happiness''''' ({{langx|ru|«Звезда пленительного счастья»|Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya}}) is a 1975 [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[historical romance]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvkultura.ru/brand/show/brand_id/24118/|publisher=[[Russia-K]]|title=Звезда пленительного счастья. Х/ф}}</ref> The title is an allusion to a line from the poem ''[[To Chaadayev]]'' by [[Alexander Pushkin]].<ref>{{cite wikisource |wslink=К Чедаеву (Пушкин) |title=К Чедаеву (Пушкин) |wslanguage=ru}}</ref>  It is a drama with the dedication "to the women of Russia".
-==History==
-The title is an allusion to a line from a poem by [[Alexander Pushkin]].<ref>{{cite wikisource |wslink=К Чедаеву (Пушкин) |title=К Чедаеву (Пушкин) |wslanguage=ru}}</ref>  It is a costume drama dedicated "to the women of Russia".
-Film followed largely the books ''Northern Lights'' by [[Mariya Marich]] and ''In the Depths of Siberian Ores'' by [[Arnold Gessen]], sometimes echoing the poem ''Russian Women'' by [[Nikolay Nekrasov]] and the novel ''Fencing Teacher'' by [[Alexandre Dumas père]].
 ==Plot==
-The story is set in the aftermath of [[Decembrist revolt]] against [[Nicholas I of Russia|Tsar Nicholas&nbsp;I]] in 1825.
+The story is set in the aftermath of the [[Decembrist revolt]] against [[Nicholas I of Russia|Tsar Nicholas&nbsp;I]] in 1825. The revolt is suppressed, the investigation proceeds, and five Decembrists are executed. Other military officers involved are sentenced to exile in [[Siberia]], leaving their wives, known as the [[Decembrists' women]] (''Dekabristki''), to decide whether to follow them.
-*'''Part 1 :''' To Moskva
+In the center of the plot is the fate of Decembrist Ivan Annenkov and his beloved, French seamstress Polina Gueble, whose exile to Siberia unexpectedly provides a chance for them to find happiness together. Polina, without title or wealth, works in a fashionable shop in Moscow, and their marriage would have been impossible before the uprising. After Annenkov’s arrest, trial, and sentence to exile, Polina relentlessly pursues permission to join him, ultimately overcoming resistance from Annenkov’s proud mother and the emperor himself. Alongside Polina are Ekaterina Trubetskaya, who fights for the right to join her husband, Sergei Trubetskoy, out of deep mutual love, and Maria Volkonskaya, who follows her husband to Siberia despite having married him under family pressure. Through flashbacks, the film recounts moments of the Decembrists' lives, including the uprising, trial, and consequences, all while highlighting the sacrifices and resolve of these remarkable women.
-The revolt is repressed after 24 hours, and the military officers involved confess one by one.
-*'''Part 2 :''' To Sibir
-[[Decembrist revolt]] are sentenced to exile in [[Siberia]] and their wives face the decision as to whether or not to follow them.
 ==Cast==
@@ Line 59: / Line 53: @@
 *[[Mikhail Kokshenov]] as Nikita, servant of Annenkov-senior
 *Aleksei Kozhevnikov as Paphnutius, servant of Zeidler
-==Crew==
-*Script writers: [[Vladimir Motyl]], [[Oleg Osetinsky]] with the participation of [[Mark Zakharov]]
-*Stage director: [[Vladimir Motyl]]
-*Chief cinematographer: Dmitry Meskhiev
-*Chief artist: Valery Kostrin
-*Composer: [[Isaac Schwartz]]
-*Poems of romances: [[Bulat Okudzhava]]
-*Singing: E. Mukhanova, [[Vladimir Kachan]]
-*Costume designer: Natalya Vasilyeva
 ==Production==
-[[File:Pushikn's verse on the protestor's banner.jpg|thumb|right|222px|Comrade, believe: she will rise, the star of captivating happiness. Russia will wake up from a dream. And on the wreckage of autocracy will write our names.]]
 After making the 1970 hit film ''[[White Sun of the Desert]]'', Motyl received no directorial projects for five years.
 When Motyl got the green light from [[Goskino]] to make a film about the Decembrists, he still had problems and had to do many rewrites because the authorities believed that the picture had too many parallels to the Soviet regime and allusions about [[Soviet dissidents]].
-Nevertheless, the screenplay was rejected. Then Motyl went to [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], to the regional party committee. He handed the script to the secretary on ideology; the woman did not have time to read it and instead gave the text to her daughter who ended up adoring it. The mother called Filipp Ermash, Moscow's Minister of Cinematography and declared that "The Leningrad Regional Committee is interested in the film about the Decembrists!" Thus the script got to [[Lenfilm]], but the budget was cut to 1.5 million rubles from the initial 3.5 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/culture/zvezda_plenitelnogo_schastya_ili_kak_sudbu_legendarnogo_filma_reshili_d|publisher=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|title="Звезда пленительного счастья", или как судьбу легендарного фильма решили д|date=21 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/zvezda_plenitelnogo_schastya/|publisher=VokrugTV|title=Звезда пленительного счастья}}</ref>
+Nevertheless, the screenplay was rejected. Then Motyl went to [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]], to the regional party committee. He handed the script to the secretary on ideology; the woman did not have time to read it and instead gave the text to her daughter who ended up adoring it.  The mother called {{ill|Filipp Yermash|ru|Ермаш, Филипп Тимофеевич}}, Soviet Minister of Cinematography and declared that "The Leningrad Regional Committee is interested in the film about the Decembrists!" Thus the script got to Lenfilm, but the budget was cut to 1.5 million rubles from the initial 3.5 million.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aif.ru/culture/zvezda_plenitelnogo_schastya_ili_kak_sudbu_legendarnogo_filma_reshili_d|publisher=[[Argumenty i Fakty]]|title="Звезда пленительного счастья", или как судьбу легендарного фильма решили д|date=21 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/zvezda_plenitelnogo_schastya/|publisher=VokrugTV|title=Звезда пленительного счастья}}</ref>
 The locations of the film included the [[Peterhof Palace]] and the [[Winter Palace]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.culture.ru/materials/56522/-zvezda-plenitelnogo-schastya-sorok-let-na-ekrane|publisher=culture.ru|title="Звезда пленительного счастья". Сорок лет на экране|newspaper=Культура.рф}}</ref>
-==See also==
-{{commonscat|Звезда пленительного счастья}}
-*[[D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers]] (TV series 1978)
-*[[La Dame de Monsoreau (1994 TV series)|La Dame de Monsoreau]] (TV series 1994)
-*[[The Mysteries of Sankt-Peterburg]] (TV series 1995-8)
-*[[Unravelling the Mysteries of Sankt-Peterburg]] (TV series 1998-9)
 ==References==
-{{reflist|4}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
 *{{IMDb title|0073933}}
-*[https://www.lenfilm.ru/cinema/filmography/annotation_catalog/202/ The Captivating Star of Happiness : Official]
-{{DEFAULTSORT:Captivating Star of Happiness, The}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Star of Captivating Happiness, The}}
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 [[Category:Films set in the Russian Empire]]
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 [[Category:Lenfilm films]]
 [[Category:1975 films]]
+[[Category:1970s historical romance films]]
 [[Category:1970s historical drama films]]
+[[Category:1975 romantic drama films]]
 [[Category:Russian historical drama films]]
+[[Category:1970s Soviet films]]
 [[Category:1970s Russian-language films]]
 [[Category:Soviet historical drama films]]
+[[Category:Soviet romantic drama films]]
 [[Category:1975 drama films]]
+[[Category:Cultural depictions of Alexander I of Russia]]
 [[Category:Cultural depictions of Nicholas I of Russia]]
+[[Category:Decembrist revolt in fiction]]
+[[Category:Films set in Siberia]]
+[[Category:Russian-language romantic drama films]]
+{{1970s-USSR-film-stub}}