A 20th Century Chocolate Cake

A 20th Century Chocolate Cake is a Canadian comedy docufiction film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1983.[1] The film stars Greg Van Riel and Charles Fisch Jr. as Greg and Charles, two young men in Montreal who are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives; Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of human interest journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar.[2]

A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
Directed byLois Siegel
Produced byLois Siegel
Written byGreg Van Riel
StarringGreg Van Riel
Charles Fisch, Jr.
Music byAndré Vincelli
CinematographyGeorges Archambault
Peter Benison
Ken Decker
Donald Delorme
Raymond Gravel
Serge Ladouceur
Glen MacPherson
Mike Rixon
Lois Siegel
Daniel Villeneuve
Werner Volkmer
François Warot
Edited byLois Siegel
Production
companies
Chocolate Cake Productions
Release date
  • June 1, 1983 (1983-06-01)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film was an expansion of an earlier short film, Recipe to Cook a Clown, which Siegel, Van Riel and Fisch had made together in the 1970s.[3] Due to budgetary limitations, the film took over three years to make, went through a dozen different cinematographers, and was shot predominantly on stray ends of donated film from other film projects.[3]

André Vincelli received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Score at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984.[4]

References
  1. "A slice of life served with fiction". The Globe and Mail, July 16, 1983.
  2. "Lois Siegel's A 20th Century Chocolate Cake". Cinema Canada, July/August 1983.
  3. "The baking of a chocolate cake". Cinema Canada, June 1983.
  4. "11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". The Globe and Mail, February 10, 1984.
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