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Release Date:
October 27, 1993
Original Title:
Senkiföldje
Alternate Titles:
Parallel Lives
Why Wasn't He There?
Genres:
Drama
Production Companies:
AB Films
Dialóg Filmstúdió
Dom Filmowe
Production Countries:
Hungary
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 105
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...
Costume Design:
Zsuzsa Pártényi
Director:
András Jeles
Director of Photography:
Tibor Máthé
Editor:
Margit Galamb
Executive Producer:
László Berta
Pál Bori
Original Music Composer:
László Melis
Producer:
Frédéric Bourboulon
Filip Bajon
Set Decoration:
Tamás Breier
Writer:
András Jeles
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