Gloomy Sunday
DramaRomance
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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A hauntingly beautiful and tragic romance set against a darkening historical backdrop. It's a tale of intense passion, devastating obsession, and the destructive power of a song that mirrors the soul's deepest sorrows.
melancholicromantictragichauntingintenseslow-burnperiod dramaarthouseromantic tragedyEuropean cinemaloveobsessiontragedyartpersecution
lovesicknessjealousybudapesthungarynazibirthdayblackmailholocaust (shoah)deportationjew persecutionhungarymenage a troissexual harassmentanti-semitism
