Released:
1993-10-27

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...

Director:
András Jeles

Runtime:
1h 45min

Genre:
Drama

• 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