My Twentieth Century

Az én XX. századom

Twins Dora and Lili were born in 1880, on the same evening Edison invented the electric bulb. A couple of years later, they are separated under strange circumstances and adopted by different families. Dora ends up a hedonistic courtesan, while Lili becomes a feminist anarchist. In the early days of year 1900, they meet on the Orient Express, not knowing about each other’s existence... A witty and visually stunning allegory about female identity in the age of mechanical reproduction.
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Direction: Ildikό Enyedi
Script: Ildikό Enyedi
Cinematography: Tibor Máthé
Editing: Mária Rigó
Sound: Istvan Sipos
Music: László Vidovszky
Actors: Dorotha Segda, Oleg Jankowski, Gabor Mπthe, Peter Andorai
Production: Budapest Film-Studio, Friedländer Filmproduktion
Producers: Archy Dolder, Gábor Hanák, Andrej Schwartz
Art Direction: Zoltán Lábas
Costumes: Ágnes Gyarmathy
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hungary
Production Year: 1989
Duration: 100΄
Awards/Distinctions: Caméra d'Or – Cannes Film Festival 1989, France

Ildikó Enyedi

Ildikó Enyedi has started her career as a concept and media artist. She was a member of the art group Indigo and the Balázs Béla Studio, the only independent film studio in Eastern Europe before 1989. She later turned to feature film directing and script writing, wrote and directed five features and several shorts. With these works she’s won more than forty international prizes. Her film My 20th Century was chosen as one of the 12 Best Hungarian Films of All Time and selected among the 10 best films of the year by The New York Times. In addition to prizes awarded to her as a filmmaker, she has also received recognition as a script writer (as winner of the Grand Prize of the Hartley Merrill International Screenwriting Prize for best European Script). She lectures at European master classes (Switzerland, Poland) and teaches at the University of Film and Theatrical Arts in Budapest. She worked in Berlin in the frames of the Artist in Residence program of the DAAD. She was founding member of EUCROMA, the European Cross Media Academy. In 2011 she defended her DLA paper “Summa cum Laude” in the field of Transmedia (Created Worlds / The Relationship of Technique and Fantasy in Moving images). Member of the European Film Academy. She was awarded the Balázs Béla and the Merited Artist Prizes, and has received the Republic President’s Order of Merit Cross. A mother of two, she lives in Budapest and Nordrhein Westfalen, German.

Filmography

1981 Flort
1981 Rόzsalovag
1982 ’j konyvek
1985 A nezo
1986 Vakond
1989 Az en XX. szazadom | My Twentieth Century
1991 Teli hadjπrat
1994 Buvos vadπsz | Magic Hunter |
1997 Tamas et Juli | Tamas and Juli
1999 Simon Magus | Simon the Magician
2017 Teströl és lélekröl | On Body and Soul