Andrei KUDINENKO Андрей КУДИНЕНКО Andreï KOUDINENKO   Russia, 2008, 100 mn  Colour, fiction

The Prank ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Розыгрыш    La Blague  Pozygrysh

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Plot synopsis

The Prank Pavel Lungin's producing studio offers a remake of Vladimir Menshov’s youth film shot in 1976. Once again the film takes place at an ordinary Moscow school with morals and manners. A new pupil from the provinces comes to a graduation class and breaks all dispositions and challenges the recognized leader, arrogant guy from a rich family. To restore the leading position he resorts to desperate measures and subjects the young and inexperienced English teacher to a cruel hoax. Scandal flares up and the head of studies wishes to expel the insolent fellow from the school. Popular musician Noize MC plays the leading role.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Andrei Kudinenko :The Joke (Rozygrysh, 2008), Joshua FIRST, kinokultura.com, 2009

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2009

- Cinemania : World Film Panorama, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2008

- Russian Film Festival, Riga (Latvia), 2008

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2008

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008

- Russian Film Week in New York, New York (USA), 2008

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