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The Man Without a World

The Man Without a World

Drama

1h 38m

May 28, 1991 (34 years ago)

Overview

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...

ActorAge thenAge now
Pier Marton

Pier Marton

Zevi

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Christine Berry

Christine Berry

Rukheleh

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Anna Henriques

Anna Henriques

Sooreleh

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Eleanor Antin

Eleanor Antin

Ballerina

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