Synopsis
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...
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Eleanor AntinDirector
- Eleanor AntinWriter
Cast
- Pier MartonZevi
- Christine BerryRukheleh
- Anna HenriquesSooreleh
- Eleanor AntinBallerina
Themes
soviet unionyiddish language