''A 20th Century Chocolate Cake'' is a Canadian comedy docufiction film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1983. The film stars Greg Van Riel and Charles Fisch Jr. as Greg and Charles, two young men in

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who are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives. Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of

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journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar. 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."The baking of a chocolate cake". '' Cinema Canada'', June 1983. 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. André Vincelli received

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nominations for Best Original Score and

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at the

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in 1984."11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". ''

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'', February 10, 1984.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:20th Century Chocolate Cake 1983 films Canadian comedy films Canadian docufiction films Canadian LGBT-related films LGBT-related comedy films 1983 LGBT-related films English-language Canadian films Films set in Montreal Films shot in Montreal 1980s English-language films 1980s Canadian films