The Man Without a World

Name: The Man Without a World
Director: Eleanor Antin
Genre: Drama
Released: 1991
Rating: 2
Cast: Pier Marton, Christine Berry, Anna Henriques, Eleanor Antin

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

2/10

1991

1h 38m

Drama

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...