Gloomy Sunday

1999, Movie, 1h 52min

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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Critic Marrit Ingman

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This broody German-language melodrama (...) is a lovely, thought-provoking sleeper.

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In 1930s Budapest, a beautiful waitress named Ilona inspires two men, a restaurant owner and a pianist, to fall deeply in love with her. The pianist, András, writes a song called "Gloomy Sunday" for Ilona's birthday, but it becomes a curse when it triggers a series of suicides. The three form a complicated relationship, but their love is put to the test when the Nazis invade Hungary and one of the men, Hans, returns as an SS officer. The film follows their tumultuous love story and the tragic consequences of the song that brought them together.

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