Why Wasn't He There?(1993)

Synopsis

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...

Casting et équipe

Péter Halász

Béla

Kathleen Gati

Ági

Sándor Fábry

Officer Szepesváry

C

Cora Fisher

Éva (as Cora Fischer)

L

Lörinc Gulyás

David Copperfield

Györgyi Kari

Maid

É

Éva Láng

Grandma

E

Elemér Sós

Grandpa

I

István Bálint

Éva's father