

Love by Request
1982, Russian. Directed by Sergey Mikaelyan.
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete living aimlessly and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, a dowdy librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Sergey MikaelyanDirector
- Oleg YankovskyIgor Bragin
- Evgeniya GlushenkoVera Silkova
- Irina ReznikovaNatasha (as I. Reznikova)
- Natalya Yegorovaотдыхающая «дикарём» с семьей на природе
- Yuriy DubrovinPetrushin (as Yu. Dubrovin)
- Vladimir BelousovGena (as V. Belousov)
- Vsevolod ShilovskyKolya (as V. Shilovskiy)
- Kira Krejlis-PetrovaVera's mother (as K. Kreylis-Petrova)
- Yuriy KopichMichail Petrovich (as Yu. Kopich)
- Nikolay Drozdovanchorman
Details
- Released
- 1 November 1982
- Original title
- Влюблен по собственному желанию
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Sergey Mikaelyan, Aleksandr Vasinsky
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Love by Request runs 89 minutes (1h 29m).
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Love by Request isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 November 1982. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Love by Request?
Love by Request (1982) was directed by Sergey Mikaelyan and stars Oleg Yankovsky, Evgeniya Glushenko, Irina Reznikova.