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Almost Holy (2015)
Directed by Steve Hoover
Documentary, Drama · 1h 36m
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. In the early 2000s a pastor from Mariupol named Gennadiy Mokhnenko took up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. Gennadiy's ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city's problems has made him a folk hero for some, and a lawless vigilante to others. Despite criticism, Gennadiy is determined to continue his work.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Steve Hoover
- Writer
- Steve Hoover
- Director of Photography
- John Pope
- Original Music Composer
- Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Bobby Krlic
- Editor
- Steve Hoover
- Producer
- Danny Yourd
Details
- Release date
- 2015-04-16
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Documentary, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Ukrainian
- Countries
- Ukraine, United States of America
- Production
- Animal
- Box office
- $23,957