The Man Without a World

The Man Without a World

🎞️ Movie 98 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1991

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

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

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Pier Marton
Zevi
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Christine Berry
Rukheleh
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Anna Henriques
Sooreleh
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Eleanor Antin
Ballerina
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Marcia Goodman
Rukheleh's Mother
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George Leonard
Zionist
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Avram Sachs
Yeshiva bocher
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Avram Sachs
anarchist
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Don Sommese
Socialist
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Don Sommese
Gravedigger
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Lee Erwin
Composer
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Brian McWhorter
Composer
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Charles Morrow
Composer
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Richard Wango
Cinematographer