Love by Request

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.

Plot

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 discliked by some spectators.

Cast

• 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)

External links

• Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu at IMDb