Why Wasn't He There?

The story

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...

Cast & crew

Péter HalászBéla

Kathleen GatiÁgi

Sándor FábryOfficer Szepesváry

Cora Fisher

Cora FisherÉva (as Cora Fischer)

Lörinc Gulyás

Lörinc GulyásDavid Copperfield

Györgyi KariMaid

Éva Láng

Éva LángGrandma

Elemér Sós

Elemér SósGrandpa

István Bálint

István BálintÉva's father