---
title: 'The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Vladimir Motyl'
released: '1975-11-10'
runtime_minutes: 160
genres:
  - 'Romance'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-captivating-star-of-happiness-1975'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073933/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Captivating Star of Happiness (1975)

1975 · 160 min · Romance, History · Soviet Union

Original title: Звезда пленительного счастья

## Synopsis

The Star of Captivating Happiness is a 1975 Soviet historical romance. The title is an allusion to a line from the poem To Chaadayev by Alexander Pushkin. It is a drama with the dedication "to the women of Russia".

## Credits

- **Director:** [Vladimir Motyl](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-motyl)
- **Screenplay:** [Vladimir Motyl](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-motyl), [Oleg Osetinsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-osetinsky)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Isaac Schwartz](https://cinepixo.com/people/isaac-schwartz)
- **Director of Photography:** [Dimitri Meskhishvili](https://cinepixo.com/people/dimitri-meskhishvili)

## Cast

- [Ewa Szykulska](https://cinepixo.com/people/ewa-szykulska) as Praskovia Egorovna Annenkova
- [Igor Dmitriev](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-dmitriev) as Ludwig von Lebzeltern
- [Oleg Dahl](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-dahl) as дежурный офицер
- [Irina Kupchenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/irina-kupchenko) as Ekaterina Trubetskaya
- [Tatyana Pankova](https://cinepixo.com/people/tatyana-pankova) as Анна Ивановна Анненкова
- [Natalya Bondarchuk](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalya-bondarchuk) as Mariya Volkonskaya
- [Aleksey Batalov](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksey-batalov) as Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy
- [Bulat Okudzhava](https://cinepixo.com/people/bulat-okudzhava) as капельмейстер
- [Vladimir Dolinskiy](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-dolinskiy)
- [Mikhail Kokshenov](https://cinepixo.com/people/mikhail-kokshenov) as Никита
- [Oleg Strizhenov](https://cinepixo.com/people/oleg-strizhenov) as Sergey Volkonsky
- [Boryslav Brondukov](https://cinepixo.com/people/boryslav-brondukov) as солдат с известием об аресте
- [Igor Kostolevsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-kostolevsky) as Ivan Aleksandrovich Annenkov
- [Vasily Livanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vasily-livanov) as Nicholas I of Russia
- [Raisa Kurkina](https://cinepixo.com/people/raisa-kurkina) as Sofya Konstantinova

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