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Why Wasn't He There? (1993)

★ 9.0/10 105 min Drama Hungary Hungarian
Director: András Jeles
Streaming: Not available

Description

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...

Top Cast

Péter Halász
Péter Halász Béla
Kathleen Gati
Kathleen Gati Ági
Sándor Fábry
Sándor Fábry Officer Szepesváry
Cora Fisher Éva (as Cora Fischer)
Lörinc Gulyás David Copperfield
Györgyi Kari
Györgyi Kari Maid
Éva Láng Grandma
Elemér Sós Grandpa

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