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Why Wasn't He There?

9.0 105 mins Drama   1993
Dom Filmowe   AB Films   Dialóg Filmstúdió  
Director(s): András Jeles

Release Date: 27 Wed, Oct 1993

The film is a story of parallel biographies. In 1944, three generations of a Jewish family of pharmacists live in a small Hungarian town. Eva, the 13-year-old granddaughter, keeps a diary and reads Dickens' Copperfield's David. From time to time, the hero of the novel appears in her life, or Eva enters the world of the novel. First, Eve's cousin is taken away. Then Eva's mother and her boyfriend arrive from Pest. They seize Grandpa's shop, arrest her father, and the ordeal doesn't end there...

Casts of Why Wasn't He There?

Péter Halász

as Béla

Kathleen Gati

as Ági

Sándor Fábry

as Officer Szepesváry

Cora Fisher

as Éva (as Cora Fischer)

Lörinc Gulyás

as David Copperfield

Györgyi Kari

as Maid

Éva Láng

as Grandma

Elemér Sós

as Grandpa

István Bálint

as Éva's father

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