Love by Request
1982 film
- February 1983 (1983-02)
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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
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.
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
- ^ "Berlinale: 1983 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
External links
- Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu at IMDb
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