Az én XX századom (My Twentieth Century) 1989 Ages 15+

Production still from My Twentieth Century 1989 / Director: Ildikó Enyedi / Image courtesy: National Film Institute, Budapest

Production still from My Twentieth Century 1989 / Director: Ildikó Enyedi / Image courtesy: National Film Institute, Budapest / View full image

When

11.00 am, Sun 17 May 2026 (102 mins)

Where

Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A

Accessibility

  • Subtitled
  • Wheelchair Accessible

About

Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi’s Camera d'Or winning homage to early cinema embodies the luminous wonders of the cusp of the twentieth century. Born as Thomas Edison presents the lightbulb, the lives of poverty stricken twins, Lili and Dóra (Dorotha Segda), veer in different directions when they are abducted from the streets of Budapest as children. Pursuing divergent paths – one an earnest revolutionary, the other a bon vivant grifter – the girls are reunited by chance on the Orient Express on New Year’s Eve 1899 where they meet Mr Z (Oleg Yankovsky). Eclectic and electrifying, Enyedi’s vision of modernity, made as the Iron Curtain was the brink of collapse, captures the dualities and paradoxes at the heart of the 1900s.

Ages 15+

Production Credits

  • Director: Ildikó Enyedi
  • Script: Ildikó Enyedi
  • Cinematographer: Tibor Máthé
  • Editor: Mária Rigó
  • Cast: Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker
  • Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
  • Rights: National Film Institute Hungary, Budapest
  • Year: 1989
  • Runtime: 102 minutes
  • Country: Hungary
  • Language: Hungarian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Shooting Format: 35mm
  • Screening Format: 35mm