Az én XX. századom (1989)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

Ildikó Enyedi

Writer:

Ildikó Enyedi (writer)

Release Date:

13 January 1990 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan...

Plot Keywords:

Electricity | Turn Of The Century | Bomb | Train | Anarchy

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Dorota Segda	...	Dóra / Lili / Anya (as Dorotha Segda)
Oleg Yankovskiy	...	Z
Paulus Manker	...	Weininger Ottó
Péter Andorai	...	Thomas Edison
Gábor Máté	...	K
Gyula Kéry	...	ékszerész (as Kéri Gyula)
Andrej Schwartz	...	Segéd
Sándor Téri	...	Huszár (as Téry Sándor)
Sándor Czvetkó	...	Anarchista fiú
Endre Koronczi	...	Lift boy
Ágnes Kovács	...	Iker
Eszter Kovács	...	Iker

Also Known As:

Az én huszadik századom (Hungary) (alternative spelling)
Mein 20. Jahrhundert (West Germany)
Mi siglo XX (Cuba)
My 20th Century
My Twentieth Century

Runtime:

Hungary:102 min | USA:104 min

Country:

Hungary | West Germany | Cuba

Language:

Hungarian

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Budapest Stúdió Vállalat

Trivia:

Voted as one of the "12 Best Hungarian Films" ("New Budapest 12") by Hungarian filmmakers and critics in 2000.

Don't try to understand, just enjoy

Funny, touching, audacious, even momentarily erotic--this film pays homage to French surrealist cinema, the look and feel of the early classical Russian films, and the great broad fantasy tradition in literature and film that will never, as long as good humor and the irrational are honored, die out completely. My advice is: don't try to understand. Just sit back and be transported to a make-believe 1900 and have yourself a Happy New Year.

Oh, and don't overlook some very adept performances by a cat, a dog with electrodes in his head, a sad and too late wise chimpanzee, and a pigeon!