Why Wasn't He There?

Name: Why Wasn't He There?
Director: András Jeles
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-10-27
Duration: 105 min
Cast: Péter Halász, Kathleen Gati, Sándor Fábry, Cora Fisher, Lörinc Gulyás

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1993 · 105 min · Drama · TMDB 9.0/10

Overview

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...

Directed by András Jeles

Cast

Péter Halász — Béla
Kathleen Gati — Ági
Sándor Fábry — Officer Szepesváry
Cora Fisher — Éva (as Cora Fischer)
Lörinc Gulyás — David Copperfield