Why Wasn't He There?

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 27, 1993

Original language

Hungarian

Spoken languages

HUNGARIAN

Countries

Hungary

Production

AB Films,Dialóg Filmstúdió,Dom Filmowe,Dom Filmowe, AB Films, Dialóg Filmstúdió

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0108081