Practical Joke

Practical Joke (1977)

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Secondary school students play a 'practical joke' on their teacher: on midterms day, they claim she told them the wrong date. She almost believes them, but an honest classmate ruins their fun... and now they want revenge.

Date of release
1977-01-10
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Family, Romance, Drama
Director
Vladimir Menshov

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Medvednevskaya gymnasium

Practical Joke is a 1977 romantic drama directed Vladimir Menshov. The film was his feature directorial debut.

Filming

The script of the "Practical Joke" was prepared by Semyon Lungin in 1972. Vladimir Menshov, with his performance in the film "A Man at His Place", won the favor of the director of the film studio Nikolai Sizov, and, having told him in a business conversation about his directorial ambitions, he received a stack of scripts from the editorial storerooms; the best option seemed to him to be a "Practical Joke" (although Menshov later admitted that thi…

For 15-year-old Dmitry Kharatyan, the role in the film was his debut; he came to the audition at the insistence of a friend, Galya. Natalya Vavilova and Evdokiya Germanova played their first notable roles. The most experienced of the young artists turned out to be Andrey Gusev, who had managed to appear in four films by that time.

After the release of the film, popularity fell on Kharatyan, which the actor was not ready for.

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