My Twentieth Century

6.519891h 42mReleased

Comedy

Drama

Science Fiction

Overview

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...

StatusReleased

Release Date1989-09-01

Runtime1h 42m

LanguagesMagyar

CountriesCubaGermanyHungary

Keywords

woman director

Videos

2 total

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My Twentieth Century (1989) – Official Trailer

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Cast & Crew

Dorota Segda

as Dóra/Lilii/Anya

Paulus Manker

as Weininger Ottó

Péter Andorai

as Thomas Edison

Gábor Máté

as K

Eszter Kovács

as Iker

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Z

Sándor Czvetkó

as Anarchista fiú

Gyula Kéry

as ékszerész

Andrej Schwartz

as Segéd

Sándor Téri

as Huszár

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Aug 12, 2024

7/10

Dorota Segda has a go at some entertaining multi-tasking in this enjoyable thriller about the different paths taken by two poverty-stricken orphans whom we first meet trying to sell matches in the depths of a snowy winter in Budapest. They are identical twins "Dóra" and "Lili" who happened to be born just as Thomas Edison demonstrated his first eve…

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