Why Wasn't He There? Trailer (1993)

27 October 1993 Drama 105 mins

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

Péter Halász as Béla

Kathleen Gati as Ági

Sándor Fábry as Officer Szepesváry

Cora Fisher as Éva (as Cora Fischer)

Lörinc Gulyás as David Copperfield

Györgyi Kari as Maid

Éva Láng as Grandma

Elemér Sós as Grandpa

István Bálint as Éva's father

Crew

András Jeles Director

András Jeles Writer

Tibor Máthé Director of Photography

László Melis Original Music Composer

Margit Galamb Editor

Filip Bajon Producer

László Berta Executive Producer

Pál Bori Executive Producer

Frédéric Bourboulon Producer

International Titles

Why Wasn't He There? Trailer

Parallel Lives Trailer

International Releases Dates

Hungary 27 October 1993

Production Companies

AB Films

Dialóg Filmstúdió

Dom Filmowe

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