The Man without a World

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Accompanied by Alicia Svigals (violin) and Donald Sosin (piano)

The film is attributed to the legendary Soviet director of the 1920s, Yevgeny Antinov. But Antinov is actually the invention of filmmaker and visual artist Eleanor Antin, who made this film in 1991 as a declaration of love to her mother, who was once an actress in a Yiddish theatre in Poland.

In a Polish shtetl at the turn of the 20th century, the villagers struggle with both anti-Semitism in the world and political power struggles within their own community. Against this backdrop, two unhappy lovers - the merchant's daughter Rukheleh and the impoverished Yiddish poet Zevi - search for happiness. But many obstacles stand in their way.