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The Man Without a World

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

3.7(3)19911h 38m1

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...

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English
  • soviet union
  • yiddish language

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  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical28 May 1991
  • GermanyDE

    • Premiere16 Feb 1992

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The Man Without a World was released on 28 May 1991.

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