Amoureux volontaires

Original title: Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu

1982
1h 29m

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Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on... Read allTwo people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on 'psychological conditioning'.Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on 'psychological conditioning'.

Director
- Sergey Mikaelyan
Writers
- Sergey Mikaelyan
- Aleksandr Vasinsky
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7.3/10

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Director
- Sergey Mikaelyan
Writers
- Sergey Mikaelyan
- Aleksandr Vasinsky
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Oleg Yankovskiy

Igor Bragin

Evgeniya Glushenko

Vera Silkova

Vsevolod Shilovskiy

Kolya
(as V. Shilovskiy)

Irina Reznikova

Natasha
(as I. Reznikova)

Yuriy Dubrovin

Petrushin
(as Yu. Dubrovin)

Vladimir Belousov

Gena
(as V. Belousov)

Yuriy Kopich

Mikhail Petrovich
(as Yu. Kopich)

Kira Kreylis-Petrova

Vera's Mother
(as K. Kreylis-Petrova)

Ivan Ufimtsev

Hapless Boyfriend-artist

Svetlana Shershneva

Library Employee
(as S. Shershneva)

Natalya Egorova

Blasphemous Holidaymaker
(as N. Egorova)

Sergey Losev

Factory Planner
(as S. Losev)

Zinaida Afanasenko

The Speculator
(as Z. Afanasenko)

Natalya Kononova

The Journalist
(as N. Kononova)

Nina Skomorokhova

The Librarian
(as N. Skomorokhova)

S. Mikhalyevich

A. Mojseyeva

P. Smirnov

Director
- Sergey Mikaelyan
Writers
- Sergey Mikaelyan
- Aleksandr Vasinsky
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evgeniy77

A film of unexpected philosophical depth

A great metaphor is stated in this film: "We are porcupines traveling at night across a cold desert. We want to get warm by hugging or cuddling together. However, something that protects us from the outside world, our needles are preventing us from doing so. So instead of allowing us to get close to each other, we jab anyone who tries to do so." This is the kind of philosophical depth, I had not anticipated from what I thought was just a simple comedy. I REdiscovered this a year ago on Russian satellite "all-movie" channel "RTVI+" or "Nashe Kino". Obviously, when this film came out it was "beyond me" as I was only 5 years old.

danielbroenner

intelligent, funny and heartwarming movie about planned love

the title tells the story: 2 people (igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and vera, an ugly duck librarian) try to find there luck by planning to fall in love with each other by means of "psychological conditioning". intelligent, funny and heartwarming movie from 1982. the movie was show as part of a Oleg Yankovsky retrospective at filmfest muenchen 2003.