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Why Wasn't He There?

9 average rating
9
Hungarian / 105 MIN. / 1993

The Genres

The 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...

The Cast

Péter HalászKathleen GatiSándor FábryCora FisherLörinc GulyásGyörgyi KariÉva LángElemér SósIstván Bálint

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