The Man Without a World
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Eleanor Antin
Pier Marton
Cristine Berry
Anna Henriques
Eleanor Antin
Nicolai Lennox
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A portrait of Polish shtetl life in the 1920s, centering around a young poet and his various relationships, and dealing with love, death, madness, Zionism, socialism and modernism among other topical issues in the Eastern European Jewish communities of the time.
Director
Eleanor Antin
Cast
Pier Marton
Cristine Berry
Anna Henriques
Eleanor Antin
Nicolai Lennox
Sabato Fiorella
James Scott Kerwin
George Leonard
Don Sommese
Bennett Berger
Ellen Zweig
Lisa Welti
Marcia Goodman
Sargun A Tont
Luba Talpalatsky
Gran Taylor
John Borba
Berne Smith
Newton Harrison
Jerome Rothenberg
Harris Leonwitz
Jim Rix Mcgilvery
Mike Weix
Ben Anderson
Aaron Cicourel
Alan Asa-dorian
Pam Whidden
Baba Hillman
Emily Evans-gillis
Wendy Arons
Michelle Rabkin
Jack Greenstein
Bertha The Chicken
Clementine The Goat
Delight The Horse
Dixie The Pig
Crew
Laura Andrews
David Antin
David Antin
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin
Lynn Burnstan
Lynn Burnstan
Melissa Cottle
Lee Erwin
Lee Erwin
Steve Fagin
Sabato Fiorella
Sabato Fiorello
Sherman George
Marcia Goodman
Marcia Goodman
Jean Pierre Gorin
Peter Kreklow
Rich Larson
Harris Lenowitz
Charlie Morrow
Ron Robboy
Jerome Rothenberg
Judy Ryerson
Roger Shermaan
Susan Slyomovics
Jim Smith
Janice Tellier
Janice Tellier
Erik Von Neumann
Erik Von Neumann
Richard Wargo
Pam Whidden
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Spring May 20, 1992
Released in United States September 9, 1992
Released in United States 1991
Released in United States October 27, 1991
Released in United States February 1992
Shown at Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM) in New York City September 24 - October 3, 1991.
Shown at Jewish Film Festival in London October 27, 1991.
Shown at Berlin Film Festival, February 13-24, 1992.
Complete with a faux historical scrawl at the beginning, the film poses as a lost Jewish-Polish silent film by Soviet director "Yevgeny Antinov, whose previous film, 'The Last Night of Rasputin,' got him into trouble with Stalin and led to his flight to Poland," though in fact it was produced in Southern California in 1991.
Principal photography lasted 29 days.
Feature directorial debut for multi-media artist Eleanor Antin.
Completed shooting August 1991.
Began shooting July 1991.
English intertitles
Televised in Germany on ZDF May 1992.
Released in United States Spring May 20, 1992
Released in United States September 9, 1992 (New York City)
Released in United States 1991 (Shown at Independent Feature Film Market (IFFM) in New York City September 24 - October 3, 1991.)
Released in United States October 27, 1991 (Shown at Jewish Film Festival in London October 27, 1991.)
Released in United States February 1992 (Shown at Berlin Film Festival, February 13-24, 1992.)
