Film · Drama, Romance
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
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.
- Director
- Rolf Schübel
- Writers
- Nick Barkow, Rolf Schübel, Ruth Toma
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- Release date
- October 21, 1999
- Original title
- Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod - Gloomy Sunday
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
- Áron SiposArzt (as Aron Sipos)
- Ernst KahlZeichner Torresz
- Jörg GillnerChefkoch Istvan
Denis MoschittoLehrling Inas
István MikóKartoffelhändler
Michael GampeDirektor Novak
Karl FischerHerr Svoboda
Markus HeringHerr Schwitz- Werner BrehmPostbote
Wanja MuesHerr Mendel
