Gloomy Sunday
Oct 21 1999
•2h 52m
•Drama, Romance
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.
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Erika Marozsán
Ilona
Joachim Król
László
Ben Becker
Hans Wieck
Stefano Dionisi
András
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