The Captivating Star of Happiness

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

The Captivating Star of Happiness (Russian: Звезда пленительного счастья; Zvezda plenitelnogo schastya; 1975) is a Soviet film. 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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