Practical Joke (Russian: Poзыгрыш, romanized: Rozygrysh) is a 1977 romantic drama directed Vladimir Menshov.

Everything was revealed by chance when the teacher unexpectedly asked the modest and shy Taya Petrova if she had warned about the test.

During the celebration of Maria Vasilyevna's 55th birthday, Komarovsky (unsuccessfully trying to persuade her to remove "1" ("F")) insults the teacher and Taya and runs out of the classroom.

[1] 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 this was not quite the picture, which he wanted to do as his debut).

The most experienced of the young artists turned out to be Andrey Gusev, who had managed to appear in four films by that time.

[3][6] The film featured songs by composer Alexander Flyarkovsky [ru] based on poems by Alexey Didurov [ru] performed by VIA "Dobry Molodtsy",[7] including the famous "Kogda uydyom so shkol'nogo dvora" ("When we Leave the School Yard").

The film includes 5 Didurov's songs: "Kogda uydyom so shkol'nogo dvora", "Babochki" ("Butterflies"), "Strizhi" ("Swifts"), "Pervyi dozhd'" ("The first rain"), "Prosto sel s toboi sluchayno ya" ("I just sat down with you by chance").