Gloomy Sunday 1999

7.8

Germany

Drama Romance

112 min

1999

Erika Marozsán Wanja Mues Dorka Gryllus Anna Ráckevei Veit Stübner Márta Bakó Sebastian Koch Ulrike Grote László I. Kish Stefan Weinert Markus Hering Karl Fischer Joachim Król Ben Becker Stefano Dionisi András Bálint Rolf Becker Ilse Zielstorff Ferenc Bács Denis Moschitto István Mikó Zsuzsa Mányai

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.