My Twentieth Century

6.4(45)19891h 42m

ComedyDramaScience Fiction

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...

Director

Ildikó Enyedi

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Cast

Dorota Segda

Dóra/Lilii/Anya

Paulus Manker

Weininger Ottó

Péter Andorai

Thomas Edison

Gábor Máté

Eszter Kovács

Iker

Oleg Yankovskiy

Sándor Czvetkó

Anarchista fiú

Gyula Kéry

ékszerész

Andrej Schwartz

Segéd

Sándor Téri

Huszár

Endre Koronczi

Lift boy

Dániel Ács

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1 review

Geronimo1967

1y ago

7.0

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 ever light bulb. They are very close until separated ...