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The Man Without a World (1991)
Directed by Eleanor Antin
“One of the most unusual, artistic and fantastic films of the American Indie history. There is nothing else like it!”
Drama · 1h 38m
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...
Cast
Eleanor Antin
Crew
- Director
- Eleanor Antin
- Writer
- Eleanor Antin
- Director of Photography
- Richard Wango
- Editor
- Lynn Burstan
- Producer
- Eleanor Antin, Lynn Burstan
Details
- Release date
- 1991-05-28
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America