The Star of Captivating Happiness
| The Captivating Star of Happiness | |
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| Directed by | Vladimir Motyl |
| Written by | Vladimir Motyl Oleg Osetinsky Mark Zakharov |
| Starring | Igor Kostolevsky Irina Kupchenko Aleksey Batalov Natalya Bondarchuk Oleg Strizhenov |
| Cinematography | Dmitriy Meshiev |
| Edited by | Ye. Sadovskaya |
| Music by | Isaak Schwarz |
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Release date | November 11, 1975 |
Running time | 167 min. |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Captivating Star of Happiness (Template:Lang-ru; 1975) is a Soviet historical drama. The title is an allusion to a line from a poem by Alexander Pushkin. It is a costume drama dedicated "to the women of Russia".
The story is set in the aftermath of the Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. The revolt is repressed, and the military officers involved confess one by one. They are sentenced to exile in Siberia and their wives face the decision as to whether or not to follow them.
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