Name: My Twentieth Century
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Released: 1989-09-01
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Dorota Segda, Paulus Manker, Péter Andorai, Gábor Máté, Eszter Kovács

1989·Comedy·1h 42m

7.1

★

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

Directed by Ildikó Enyedi

woman director

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Cast

Dorota Segda

Dóra/Lilii/Anya

Paulus Manker

Weininger Ottó

Péter Andorai

Thomas Edison

Gábor Máté

Oleg Yankovskiy

Dániel Ács

Crew

Ildikó Enyedi

Director

Ildikó Enyedi

Writer

Popular Reviews

13 reviews

Irene

8.0★ · 03/19/26

i’m hypnotised

Alex Teichman

6.0★ · 09/23/25

Found it hard to connect with this, but appreciate a lot of it. Very interesting that Enyedi has such large gaps in her filmography until ramping it up with 3 features in the last 8 years. Hoping Todd Field takes this same trajectory 🙏

Liberty

7.6★ · 02/26/25

The added dub of giggling was integral to the quality of the film

Mack Jadden

8.0★ · 02/25/25

Lemme play violin out the window

7.3★ · 01/16/24

Smoke, lamplight, the spectrum of human emotion/ experience, magic, the end of magic.