Gloomy Sunday

• 7.8 Drama
• 1999-10-21
• 112 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Erika Marozsán (Ilona) Joachim Król (László) Ben Becker (Hans Wieck) Stefano Dionisi (András) András Bálint (Ilonas Sohn) Géza Boros (Geigenspieler) Rolf Becker (Der alte Wieck) Ilse Zielstorff (Frau Wieck) Ferenc Bács (Botschafter) Júlia Zsolnai (Frau Botschafter)

Director:

Rolf Schübel

Writer:

Ruth Toma Rolf Schübel