Az én XX. századom (1989)

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

Directed by
Ildikó Enyedi

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ildikó Enyedi		writer

Produced by
Archy Dolder	....	producer: USA
Norbert Friedländer	....	co-producer
Gábor Hanák	....	producer
Andrej Schwartz	....	producer: Germany

Original Music by
László Vidovszky

Cinematography by
Tibor Máthé

Film Editing by
Mária Rigó

Production Design by
Zoltán Lábas

Set Decoration by
Livia Balogh
Zoltán Hardy		(as Hardi Zoltán)

Costume Design by
Ágnes Gyarmathy

Makeup Department
Helga Járai	....	makeup artist
Erzsébet Rácz	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Tibor Dimény	....	production manager
Gábor Sarudi	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
János Tamási	....	assistant director

Art Department
Róza Bálint	....	construction manager
Lóránt Jávor	....	scenic artist

Sound Department
Csaba Erös	....	boom operator
István Sipos	....	sound engineer
Anna Székely	....	dubbing editor
András Szeredás	....	dubbing editor

Special Effects by
Ferenc Hábetler	....	pyrotechnician
József Rák	....	special effects
Imre Varga	....	special effects

Stunts
György Kivés	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Pál Egri	....	camera operator
István Jávor	....	still photographer
Péter Sidló	....	chief lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Zoltánné Homonnay	....	wardrobe (as Homonnai Zoltánné)

Editorial Department
András Bederna	....	grader

Other crew
Krisztina Bene	....	location manager
Andrea Berkó	....	associate
Éva Bognár	....	consultant
Attila Csáky	....	associate
Pongrác Gonda	....	location manager
Mari Havasi	....	associate (as Havasi Mária)
Klári Horváth	....	associate (as Horváth Klára)
Zsolt Juhász Buday	....	associate (as Juhász Budai Zsolt)
Róbert Juhász	....	associate
Brigitta Kajdácsi	....	associate
István Kardos	....	script editor
Eszter Majoros	....	associate
Miklósné Miklós	....	associate
Mónika Mycha	....	associate
Tímea Papp	....	associate
Zoltán Pataki	....	technician
István Pergel	....	associate
Erzsébet Rátkai	....	associate
László Révész	....	consultant
István Sánta	....	associate
Adrienne Scheer	....	associate (as Scheer Adrienn)
Gábor Simkó	....	associate
Csilla Szigeti	....	interpreter
József Takács	....	associate
Imréné Tóth	....	associate
László Ungvári	....	associate
Tamás Virág	....	associate
Endre Vízhányó	....	associate
Zoltán Wünsch	....	associate

Production Companies

• Budapest Stúdió Vállalat
• Freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH
• Magyar Filmgyártó Vállalat (co-production)
• Humburger Filmbüro (co-production) (as Hamburger Film Büro)
• Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) (co-production: Kuba)
• Helikon Film (participation)

Distributors

• Aries Films (1990) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Asociace Ceských Filmových Klubu (ACFK) (2005) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Cinema Ten Corporation (1990) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Cinefil Imagica (2008) (Japan) (DVD)
• Fox Lorber (1997) (USA) (VHS) (subtitled)

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.

Fantastic achievement ruined by idiotic subtitling

An absolutely magical film of profound significance and beauty despite the fact that the retarded blocked-out subtitles destroy a part of the picture on the print they used for the video. The guy who subtitled this should be taken out and thrown off a cliff. Let's hope they don't cheap out (like they almost certainly will) and put the same print on a DVD. Improve the goddamn subtitles you morons! Take out the blocking, reduce them in size and make them yellow if you have to, but change the way it is now. This masterpiece of a film deserves better.