Why Wasn't He There?

Why Wasn't He There?  - Movie (1993)

Original title

Senkiföldje

Released

10/27/1993

Origin country

HU

Genre

Drama

Production companies

AB Films, Dialóg Filmstúdió, Dom Filmowe

Budget

Revenue

Runtime

1hr 45min

Description

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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