Born in Budapest in 1955, Ildikó Enyedi trained as an economist and a film student, and her debut My Twentieth Century (1989) won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes. She then took a long break from features. On Body and Soul (2017), a gentle love story set in a slaughterhouse, in which two lonely co-workers discover they share the same dream each night, won the Golden Bear in Berlin and an Oscar nomination. She followed it with The Story of My Wife (2021).
Filmography
- My Twentieth Century (1989)
- Simon the Magician (1999)
- On Body and Soul (2017)
- The Story of My Wife (2021)