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Gloomy Sunday

Original title: Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod - Gloomy Sunday

1999 · 1h 52m

Directed by Rolf Schübel

7.7

TMDB audience score
74 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Marozsán Erika
    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

  • Áron Sipos
    Arzt (as Aron Sipos)

  • Ernst Kahl
    Zeichner Torresz

  • Jörg Gillner
    Chefkoch Istvan

  • Denis Moschitto
    Lehrling Inas

  • István Mikó
    Kartoffelhändler

  • Michael Gampe
    Direktor Novak

  • Karl Fischer
    Herr Svoboda

  • Markus Hering
    Herr Schwitz