Why Wasn't He There?

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Why Wasn't He There? 1993 Directed by András Jeles Senkiföldje

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...

Country Hungary

Production Country Hungary

Language Hungarian

Spoken Language Hungarian

Gnere Drama

Production Companies Dialóg Filmstúdió , AB Films , Dom Filmowe

Release Date 27 October 1993

105 mins

Cast

Péter Halász Béla

Kathleen Gati Ági

Sándor Fábry Officer Szepesváry

Cora Fisher Éva (as Cora Fischer)

Lörinc Gulyás David Copperfield

Györgyi Kari Maid

Éva Láng Grandma

Elemér Sós Grandpa

István Bálint Éva's father

Crew

Director

András Jeles

Writer

András Jeles

Producers

Frédéric Bourboulon

Filip Bajon

Executive Producers

László Berta

Pál Bori

Cinematography

Tibor Máthé

Composer

László Melis

Editor

Margit Galamb

Set Decoration

Tamás Breier

Costume Design

Zsuzsa Pártényi