Holy Moly!
6.7
Yevgeny Yevstigneyev, Georgy Burkov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Galina Polskikh in a sad comedy by Sergey Nikonenko based on Vasily Shukshin’s short stories “Touches on the Portrait”, “The Stubborn One”, “The Strong Go Further”. Nikolai Knyazev works in a TV repair shop. God has blessed him with golden hands and heart, yet the majority of his fellow-town folk think he’s a bit nutty. And for a good reason: he’s constructing a perpetual motion machine, for years has been writing a philosophical treatise, dreaming of world fame and looking down on the other inhabitants of this sinful earth. But no matter how hard he is looking, he can’t see where his happiness (that is, post-office employee Lyuba) lies…
Your rating
Your review
Cast
24 people
Sergey Nikonenko
Known for
What Men Talk About
Ten Winters
Ekaterina Voronina
Known for
Office Romance
Galina Polskikh
Known for
Walking the Streets of Moscow
A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines
Leonid Kuravlyov
Known for
Viy
Brigada
Evgeniy Evstigneev
Known for
Heart of a Dog
Welcome, or No Trespassing
Leonid Yarmolnik
Known for
Hard to Be a God
Night Guards
Svetlana Orlova
Also in
Finest, the Brave Falcon
Granddaughter of Ice
Ivan Ryzhov
Known for
The Red Snowball Tree
White Bim Black Ear
Georgi Burkov
Участковый
Known for
Once Upon a Time, There Lived a Dog
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Mikhail Bolotnikov
Also in
Your Contemporary
Fuse
Ilya Tyurin
Also in
Be Careful, Vasilyok!
My Favorite Clown
Vadim Zakharchenko
Known for
Viy
Little Vera
Sergey Nikonenko Director · Vasiliy Shukshin Author Ludwig Minkus Composer
United States release June 6, 1988 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Gorky Film Studios
Production
Zodiak
Production
Gorky Film Studios
Production · Studio
Russia · Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Ёлки-палки!..
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · January 1, 1988
Theatrical
United States · June 6, 1988
Theatrical
More from Sergey Nikonenko
Other films they directed, best known first.
If you liked Holy Moly!
Picks that share its genres, themes, cast and crew.
Some details come from TheTVDB.