Love by Request

Love by Request (Влюблён по собственному желанию, 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.

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)