EndLENFILM
Trubetskaya - Irina KUPCHENKO
Trubetskoy - Alexei BATALOV
Volkonskaya - Natalya BONDARCHUK
Volkonsky - Oleg STRIZHENOV
Gueble-Annenkova -
Ewa SZYKULSKA (Poland)
Annenkov - Igor KOSTOLEVSKY
Rayevsky - Lev IVANOV
Rayevskaya - Raissa KURKINA
Annenkova - Tatiana PANKOVA
Ryleyev - O. YANKOVSKY
Ryleyeva - T. FYODOROVA
Pestel - A. POROKHOVSHCHIKOV
Kakhovsky - V. KOSTETSKY
Nicholas I - V. LIVANOV
Tsejdler - I. SMOKTUNOVSKY
Lavalle - V. STRZHELCHIK
Miloradovich - D. SHILKO
Lebzeltern - I. DMITRIYEV
Alexander I - V. DUBENSKY
Levashov - V. TEREKHOV
Vausher - L. MAKAROVSKY
Fyodor - A. TRUSOV
Nikitka - M. KOKSHENOV
Pafnuti - A. KOZHEVNIKOV
To the women of Russia
THE CAPTIVATING STAR
OF HAPPINESS
Written by
V. MOTYL, O. OSETINSKY
Director of Photography
Dmitry MESKHIEV
Production Designer
Valery KOSTRIN
Music by I. SHVARTS
Sound by M. LAZAREV
Song lyrics by B. OKUDZHAVA
English subtitles by
T. Kameneva
Directed by
Vladimir MOTYL
- Nikolai Nikolayevich is sleeping?
- He's not at home.
He and Sophia Alexeyevna are
vacationing at Belaya Tserkov.
You can go!
Marie!
Sorry for not having come sooner.
It was beyond my powers.
Here, the letters from Pushkin.
Believe me, Marie, I missed you very
much.
Pestel has been arrested!
Pavel Ivanovich?
What for?
The regiment under my command
will have to place under arrest
the commander-in-chief
and the head of the staff.
The Northern Society is for
the preservation of the monarchy.
The Southern Society intends
to abolish it.
To abolish the monarchy overnight
is impossible,
especially here, in Russia.
It can only be restricted by the law,
like in Britain.
But that will be a republic, Prince.
Your arguments are useless.
We detest the ignominy of serfdom.
Pestel is not married.
Not married... Pestel...
Neither is Kakhovsky.
Nor Muraviev-Apostol.
But Ryleyev...
His wife... and daughter...
I'll give orders to serve dinner.
The czar will certainly come
to review the troops.
His death
will be a signal to action.
We in the South want to know if
the Northerners agree to regicide.
I'm pleased with your brigade, Prince.
I only regret that you haven't got
rid of that spirit of giddiness.
It'd be much more profitable if you
devoted yourself to military affairs.
Sire...
- I don't know the reason why...
- You're too smart, Volkonsky.
Beware, Prince, you had let yourself
get carried away with matters
that don't concern you
when you were in Paris.
True, I myself had encouraged
those extravagant dreams,
and even ordered to draft
a Constitution.
Though I realize now that it's of
no use in an enlightened monarchy.
Nor did I rescind the ban on
the society you're a member of.
And don't try to deny it.
The tyrant's blood will deliver
our country of the autocracy.
We can't but agree
with the Southerners' plan, Prince.
If, by the spring, the Tsar doesn't
grant the Constitution he'd promised...
And what if he doesn't?
Gentlemen, I will wait until 1926,
and, during a review of the troops,
confess my guilt.
The Tsar will have me executed.
But he will grant Russia the statutes
you failed to obtain.
The thunder will strike, gentlemen!
Perhaps I deserve to be condemned...
If something goes awry,
I hope you will at least
try to understand us.
Us?
Oh God, us?
Maria!
What is it?
Oh, God, what does it mean?
Maria! Masha!
Oh, my God! An omen!
It's an omen!
A bad omen!
O Lord! Forgive me!
She must be by the swing.
Maria!
Mashenka!
Masha, hush, hush...
Nothing really happened.
Calm down.
I could never imagine such a thing.
Enough, Mashenka, calm down.
It was really nothing.
Come on, what's the matter with you?
Turn back!
Turn back,
Your Excellency!
They put a guard at your house.
Don't go to Uman!
A courier from St. Petersburg...
He brought the Tsar's order about
your arrest...
Turn back,
Your Excellency.
It's too late to turn back.
Ippolit!
Ippolit, please.
Here, these are my