My Twentieth Century (Google Play)

Directed by Ildiko Enyedi

Release Year: 1989
Running Time: 104
Color Type: Black & White
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian w/ English subt.
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Cast
Dorotha Segda
Oleg Yankovsky

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Directed by Ildiko Enyedi
Cinematographer Tibor Máthé

Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. Tarkovsky’s fabulous actor, Oleg Yankovsky, performs an unforgettable double with the young Polish actress Dorotha Segda. The complete 4K digital restoration of the film was carried out at the Hungarian Filmlab, supervised by the Hungarian Film Fund – Hungarian National Film Archive in 2017. Digital grading was supervised by cinematographer Tibor Máthé.

MY TWENTIETH CENTURY is playing on Art House Theater Day (September 18, 2019) at the AFI Silver in Washington DC, The Brattle in Cambridge, MA, the Colonial Theatre in Belfast, ME, the North Park Theatre in Buffalo, NY, the Railroad Square in Waterville, ME, the State Theatre in Modesto, CA, and the Zoetropolis in Lancaster, PA. 

“It’s a bracing combination of wit, invention, common sense and lunacy. It’s a gravely comic meditation on civilization at the turn of this century.”

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“My 20th Century, photographed by Tibor Máthé, must be one of the most handsome black-and-white films since Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2. It is also enormously good humored.”

Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“Serendipitous is the word for Ildiko Enyedi’s My 20th Century, an effervescent Hungarian celebration of electricity, love, movies and the infinite possibilities of man, woman and the chimpanzee.”

Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle


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Dorota Segda plays three different characters in Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Director Ildikó Enyedi sets up a shot with her cinematographer Tibor Máthé on MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
A scene from Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
A scene from Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Oleg Yankovskiy as Z and Dorota Segda in Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
A scene from Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Dorota Segda plays three different characters in Ildikó Enyedi's MY TWENTIETH CENTURY.

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