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The Captivating Star of Happiness
Directed byVladimir Motyl
Written byVladimir Motyl
Oleg Osetinsky [ru]
Mark Zakharov
StarringIgor Kostolevsky
Irina Kupchenko
Aleksey Batalov
Natalya Bondarchuk
Oleg Strizhenov
CinematographyDmitriy Meshiev
Edited byYe. Sadovskaya
Music byIsaak Schwarz
Production
companies
Lenfilm
Creative Association "No.2"
Distributed byGosteleradio
Release date
November 11, 1975 (1975-11-11)
Running time
167 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguagesRussian
French
German

The Captivating Star of Happiness or The Star of Fascinating Happiness (Template:Lang-ru) is a 1975 Soviet historical drama.[1]

History

The title is an allusion to a line from a poem by Alexander Pushkin.[2] 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 Tsar Nicholas I in 1825.

  • Part 1 : To Moskva

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

Crew

Production

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 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.[3][4]

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

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Звезда пленительного счастья.

References

  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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