Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires 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 sets off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans falls in love with Ilona as well.
- Released
- 1999-10-21
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Runtime
- 112 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Rolf Schübel, Rolf Schübel, Ruth Toma
- TMDB rating
- 7.7/10 from 74 votes
Cast
- Marozsán Erika as Ilona
- Joachim Król as László
- Ben Becker as Hans Wieck
- Stefano Dionisi as András
- András Bálint as Ilonas Sohn
- Géza Boros as Geigenspieler
- Rolf Becker as Der alte Wieck
- Ilse Zielstorff as Frau Wieck
- Ferenc Bács as Botschafter
- Júlia Zsolnai as Frau Botschafter
- Áron Sipos as Arzt (as Aron Sipos)
- Ernst Kahl as Zeichner Torresz