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Why Wasn't He There?

Why Wasn't He There?

Drama

1h 45m

October 27, 1993 (31 years ago)

Overview

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...

ActorAge thenAge now
Péter Halász

Péter Halász

Béla

Birthday: August 20, 1943

50 March 10, 2006 (62)
Kathleen Gati

Kathleen Gati

Ági

Birthday: August 13, 1957

3668
Sándor Fábry

Sándor Fábry

Officer Szepesváry

Birthday: November 20, 1953

3971
Cora Fisher

Cora Fisher

Éva (as Cora Fischer)

Birthday: -

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Lörinc Gulyás

Lörinc Gulyás

David Copperfield

Birthday: -

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Györgyi Kari

Györgyi Kari

Maid

Birthday: September 9, 1955

3870
Éva Láng

Éva Láng

Grandma

Birthday: -

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Elemér Sós

Elemér Sós

Grandpa

Birthday: -

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István Bálint

István Bálint

Éva's father

Birthday: -

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