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THE STORY OF MY WIFE
A FELESÉGEM TÖRTÉNETE

• Director: Ildikó Enyedi
• HUNGARY, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 169’ / English, French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ildikó Enyedi
• Original Work: "The Story of My Wife: Reminiscences of Captain Störr", Milán Füst
• Director of Photography: Marcell Rév
• Editing: Károly Szalai
• Music: Ádám Balázs
• Cast: Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Sergio Rubini, Jasmine Trinca, Luna Welder, Josef Hader
• Producer: Ernő Mesterházy, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski
• Production Co.: Inforg-M&M Film
• World Sales: Films Boutique
• Turkish Rights: Filmartı

2021 Otranto Best Director

Ildikó Enyedi's first film since On Body and Soul (2017), The Story of My Wife premiered at Cannes 2021 within the main competition. Jakob Störr, a hardened, Dutch sea captain, makes a bet in a tavern to marry the first woman who enters the place. And then Lizzy walks in... Usually writing her own original scripts, and this is the first time Enyedi has adapted a literary work, from a cult novel in Hungary by Milán Füst. Enyedi says, 'We made this film about love, passion, drama, adventure, about the thousand colours of life––a shamelessly emotional tale about what it means to be a man, what it means to be a woman, what it means to be human.'

This film is screened with the generous support of Hungarian Culture Center.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.