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Hungarian Rhapsodies

MY TWENTIETH CENTURY
AZ ÉN XX. SZÁZADOM

• Director: Ildikó Enyedi
• HUNGARY, WEST GERMANY, CUBA / 1989 / DCP / B&W / 104’ / Hungarian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Ildikó Enyedi
• Director of Photography: Tibor Máthé
• Editing: Mária Rigó
• Music: László Vidovszky
• Cast: Dorota Segda, Oleg Jankovski, Péter Andorai, Gábor Máté, Paulus Manker
• Producer: Gábor Hanák, Norbert Friedländer
• Production Co.: Budapest Stúdió Vállalat, Freihändler Filmproduktion
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

1989 Cannes Best Debut
1989 Edinburgh Jury Prize
1989 Las Vegas Special Jury Prize, Best Cinematography
1990 Hungarian Film Week Foreign Film Critics Award, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography
1990 The New York Times 10 Best Films of the Year

With pinhole fades, stars in the sky as narrators, and black&white cinematography, My 20th Century is an historical fairy tale, a modernist fable, an unusual, boundless sci-fi, a strange, erotic, and amusing European dream that moves at a dizzying pace. This playful examination of history and the human connection follows two sisters born simultaneously as Edison’s first light bulb is illuminated. They are eventually separated in a coin toss and are reunited years later. In their years separate, they have followed very different paths: one is a vamp who uses men to please her hedonistic desires, the other is a revolutionary feminist who pursues anarchist ideals.

This film is screened as part of the Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Year with the kind contribution of of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Culture Center and the Hungarian National Film Institute.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.