Why Wasn't He There?

Release Date: 1993-10-27

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...

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Cast

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