Movie Details
Theatrical Release:May 28th, 1991
Original Language:English
The Man Without a World on the Web:Official Website
Cast & Crew
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Lynn Burstan
Producer
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Lynn Burstan
Editor
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Richard Wango
Director of Photography
The Man Without a World (1991)
"One of the most unusual, artistic and fantastic films of the American Indie history. There is nothing else like it!"Movie
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Plot
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...
