Love by Request
{{short description|1982 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Love by Request
| native_name = Влюблён по собственному желанию
| image = Love_by_Request.jpg
| caption = Film poster
| director = Sergey Mikaelyan
| producer = Pyotr Orlov
| writer = Sergei Mikaelyan
Aleksandr Vasinsky
| starring = Oleg Yankovskiy
Yevgeniya Glushenko
Vsevolod Shilovsky
| music = Igor Tsvetkov
| cinematography = Sergei Astakhov
| editing = Izolda Golovko
| distributor =
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1983|2}}
| runtime = 89 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
}}
Love by Request ({{langx|ru|Влюблён по собственному желанию|Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu}}, {{langx|en|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.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1983/03_preistr_ger_1983/03_Preistraeger_1983.html |title=Berlinale: 1983 Prize Winners |accessdate=20 November 2010 |work=berlinale.de}}
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 disliked 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)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0086554|title=Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu}}
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Category:1980s romantic comedy-drama films
Category:Soviet romantic comedy-drama films
Category:1980s Russian-language films
Category:Films directed by Sergei Mikaelyan
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