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Tree Sticks!

1988 film by Sergei Nikonenko

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4053734 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tree Sticks! (Russian: Ёлки-палки!) is a 1988 Soviet comedy film directed by Sergey Nikonenko.

Plot

The film tells of an unusual and stubborn man who tries to create a perpetual motion machine and write a philosophical treatise, but feels very unhappy.

Cast

Sergey Nikonenko

Ekaterina Voronina

Galina Polskikh

Leonid Kuravlyov

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev

References

External links

Tree Sticks!

Editorial summary

“Tree Sticks!” enters the record as 1988 film by Sergei Nikonenko. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tree, Sticks and film can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tree, Sticks and film.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Tree Sticks!” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tree, Sticks and film provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4053734. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Tree Sticks!”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Tree Sticks! primary sources, Tree Sticks! archive and Tree research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Tree Sticks!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.