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Love by Request
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Wikipedia article
'Love by Request' (, ) is a 1983 Soviet comedy 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.
Cast
* Oleg Yankovskiy as Igor
* Yevgeniya Glushenko as Vera
* Vsevolod Shilovsky as Nikolai
* Irina Reznikova as Natasha
* Yuri Dubrovin as Petrushkin
* 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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