Love by Request

1982 film

Love by Request

Film poster

Влюблён по собственному желанию
Directed by| Sergey Mikaelyan
Written by| Sergei Mikaelyan
Aleksandr Vasinsky
Produced by| Pyotr Orlov
Starring| Oleg Yankovskiy
Yevgeniya Glushenko
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Cinematography| Sergei Astakhov
Edited by| Izolda Golovko
Music by| Igor Tsvetkov

Release date

* February 1983 (1983-02)

Running time

| 89 minutes
Country| Soviet Union
Language| Russian

Love by Request (Russian: Влюблён по собственному желанию, romanized: Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu, English: Enamored by own Accord) is a 1983 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Sergey Mikaelyan. It was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where Yevgeniya Glushenko won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.[1]

## Plot

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A handsome but poor former sportsman Igor Bragin and a plain but brainy librarian Vera Silkova make an unusual agreement: to fall in love with each other through will alone. In the background is late Soviet reality with a few of its unattractive features – ambition ridden careerists, black market, drunkenness, growing skepticism and disillusionment with ideals. The scene when the protagonist, a sportsman, applies a wrestling hold to a middle-aged person in the presence of the latter's little son was disliked by some spectators.

## Cast

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* Oleg Yankovskiy as Igor
* Yevgeniya Glushenko as Vera
* Vsevolod Shilovsky as Nikolai
* Irina Reznikova as Natasha
* Yuriy Dubrovin as Petrushin
* Vladimir Belousov as Gena
* Yuri Kopych as Mikhail Petrovich
* Kira Kreylis-Petrova as Vera's mother
* Ivan Ufimtsev as painter (voiced by Georgi Vitsin)
* Svetlana Shershneva as Vera's friend, an employee of the library
* Natalya Yegorova as resting
* Sergei Losev as planner
* Nikolai Drozdov (cameo)

## References

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1. ^ "Berlinale: 1983 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 20 November 2010.

## External links

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* Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu at IMDb

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