Love by Request

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] 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 discliked by some spectators.