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.
DramaRomancelovesicknessjealousybudapest, hungarynazilove trianglebirthdayblackmailholocaust (shoah)deportationjew persecutionhungarymenage a trois
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- Suicide or self-harm
- Bleak ending
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Cast
- Marozsán ErikaIlona
- Joachim KrólLászló
- Ben BeckerHans Wieck
- Stefano DionisiAndrás
- András BálintIlonas Sohn
- Géza BorosGeigenspieler
- Rolf BeckerDer alte Wieck
- Ilse ZielstorffFrau Wieck
- Ferenc BácsBotschafter
- Júlia ZsolnaiFrau Botschafter
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- Rolf SchübelDirector
- Rolf SchübelScreenplay
- Ruth TomaScreenplay
- Edward KłosińskiDirector of Photography
- Rezsö SeressOriginal Music Composer
- Detlef PetersenOriginal Music Composer
- Ursula HöfEditor
- Richard SchöpsProducer
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