Gloomy Sunday
– Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his resta..
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
21 Oct 1999
German, English, Hungarian
Rolf Schübel
Ruth Toma (screenplay), Rolf Schübel (screenplay), Nick Barkow (novel)
Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król, Ben Becker, Stefano Dionisi
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody triggers off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans goes and falls in love with Ilona as well.
7 wins & 5 nominations.
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