Why Wasn't He There?
7.5
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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Cast
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Péter Halász
Béla
Known for
The Breed
Kathleen Gati
Ági
Known for
General Hospital
Alphas
Sándor Fábry
Officer Szepesváry
Also in
Cadillac Drive
Tabló
Cora Fisher
Éva (as Cora Fischer)
Also in
Sleepwalk
Lörinc Gulyás
David Copperfield
No other roles listed
Györgyi Kari
Maid
Also in
Herminafields - Zeitgeist
6:3, Play It Again Tutti
Éva Láng
Grandma
No other roles listed
Elemér Sós
Grandpa
No other roles listed
István Bálint
Éva's father
Known for
Jakob the Liar
András Jeles Director · László Melis Composer Tibor Máthé Cinematographer
First release October 27, 1993 · Produced in Hungary · Production AB Films, Dialóg Filmstúdió
Production
Dom Filmowe
Production
AB Films
Production
Dialóg Filmstúdió
Production
Hungary
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Languages
Original title
Senkiföldje
Original language
Hungarian
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · October 27, 1993
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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