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Why Wasn't He There?

0.00% | October 27, 1993 | Drama

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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Tibor Máthé
Director of Photography
András Jeles
Writer
András Jeles
Director
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Cast

Sándor Fábry
Sándor Fábry
Officer Szepesváry
Cora Fisher
Cora Fisher
Éva (as Cora Fischer)
Lörinc Gulyás
Lörinc Gulyás
David Copperfield

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