Why Wasn't He There?

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...

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

• András JelesDirector · Writer
• Filip BajonProducer
• Frédéric BourboulonProducer
• László BertaExecutive Producer
• Pál BoriExecutive Producer
• Tibor MáthéDirector of Photography
• László MelisOriginal Music Composer
• Margit GalambEditor

Release date

October 27, 1993

Status

Released

Original language

Hungarian

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama