Why Wasn't He There?
Original title: Senkiföldje
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...
Top-billed cast
- CCora Fisher
- PPéter Halász
- ÉÉva Láng
- EElemér Sós
- LLörinc Gulyás
- IIstván Bálint
- GGyörgyi Kari
- KKathleen Gati
- SSándor Fábry
Crew
- Director
- András Jeles
- Writer
- András Jeles
- Producers
- Pál Bori, László Berta, Filip Bajon, Frédéric Bourboulon
- Production
- Dom Filmowe, AB Films, Dialóg Filmstúdió
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Who directed Why Wasn't He There??
Why Wasn't He There? was directed by András Jeles.
When was Why Wasn't He There? released?
Why Wasn't He There? was released in 1993.
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