Seattle Jewish Film Festival - The Man Without A World

The Man Without A World – Closing Night Film + Live Score

A live, original music score composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist violinist Alicia Svigals (a founding member of Grammy-winning The Klezmatics) and celebrated silent film  pianist Donald Sosin. Their performance is made possible by the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts. Join us for Q&A and a champagne toast and dessert reception after the program.

THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD is an unusual silent drama credited to an imaginary 1920s Soviet film director named Yevgeny Antinov. Although it looks like a rediscovered “lost” film from the archive, it is the creation of contemporary filmmaker Eleanor Antin, a world-renowned artist, author, and performer, who made this silent film as a love letter to her mother, a Yiddish theater actress in Poland. It is a moving, comic melodrama and cinematic masterpiece set in a typical Polish shtetl, where the villagers struggle with both antisemitism in the wider world and political infighting. Against this backdrop, two star-crossed lovers—the merchant’s daughter, Rukheleh, and an impoverished Yiddish poet, Zevi—seek happiness defying many obstacles: Rukheleh’s disapproving parents, Zevi’s dalliance with a seductive gypsy dancer (played by Antin), and the sufferings of Zevi’s younger sister.

Tickets:
Adult - $15.00
Senior 65+ - $13.00
Student - $13.00
Youth - $13.00