My Twentieth Century

About My Twentieth Century

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.

My Twentieth Century (1989) is a comedy science fiction film directed by Ildikó Enyedi.

Dorota Segda stars as Dóra, Paulus Manker as Weininger Ottó, Péter Andorai as Thomas Edison, and Gábor Máté as K. At 102 minutes long, it arrived in September 1989.

The screenplay is by Ildikó Enyedi. In the United States it streams on Kino Film Collection and Klassiki.

TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 51 votes.