Movie: The Man Without a World

Top 4 Billed Cast

Pier Marton
Pier Marton

Zevi

Christine Berry
Christine Berry

Rukheleh

Anna Henriques
Anna Henriques

Sooreleh

Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin

Ballerina

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    The Man Without a World

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    The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In fact, Antinov himself is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin. Her film is a moving, comic melodrama set in a typical shtetl (village) in Poland. The Jews’ struggle against poverty and racial hatred is complicated by their own division into hostile political factions of the religious orthodoxy, assimilationists, socialists, Zionists, anarchists and survivors. While the Jews of the shtetl pursue their loves, politics, religion, business and dreams for the future, the Angel of Death is ever near...

  • Release Date

    1991-05-28

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    One of the most unusual, artistic and fantastic films of the American Indie history. There is nothing else like it!

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    English
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