Love by Request (, ) is a 1982 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 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)
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