Directed by Ildikó Enyedi • 1989 • Hungary

Ildikó Enyedi’s award-winning debut is a whimsical, satirical allegory for the moral decay of the past hundred years, and a love letter to the magical early years of cinema itself. Born on the day that Edison invents the lightbulb, identical twins Dóra and Lili are separated as children, only to reunite years later onboard the Orient Express on the eve of the twentieth century. Dóra is now a manipulative socialite and Lili an idealistic revolutionary intent on political assassination – but unbeknownst to the sisters, they are connected by a mysterious man known only as Z… Enyedi’s bohemian fantasia captures both the thrill and the danger of these formative moments in political and artistic history.

MY TWENTIETH CENTURY • AZ ÉN XX. SZÁZADOM
Written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi
Cinematography by Tibor Máthé
Music by László Vidovszky
Starring: Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker

In Hungarian with English subtitles

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, 1989