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My Twentieth Century

Where:

🇭🇺 Hungary

When:

The 1880s The 1890s

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...

Released in 1989 — 102 minutes

Genres:

Comedy Drama

Language:

Hungarian