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Gloomy Sunday

Original title: Gloomy Sunday - Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod
  • 1999
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 52m
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7.8/10
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Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.
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Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.

  • Director
    • Rolf Schübel
  • Writers
    • Ruth Toma
    • Rolf Schübel
    • Nick Barkow
  • Stars
    • Joachim Król
    • Erika Marozsán
    • Stefano Dionisi
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    8.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Rolf Schübel
    • Writers
      • Ruth Toma
      • Rolf Schübel
      • Nick Barkow
    • Stars
      • Joachim Król
      • Erika Marozsán
      • Stefano Dionisi
    • 60User reviews
    • 41Critic reviews
    • 60Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 5 nominations

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    Joachim Król
    Joachim Król
    • László…
    Erika Marozsán
    Erika Marozsán
    • Ilona…
    Stefano Dionisi
    Stefano Dionisi
    • András…
    Ben Becker
    Ben Becker
    • Hans…
    András Bálint
    • Ilonas Sohn
    Géza Boros
    • Geigenspieler
    Rolf Becker
    Rolf Becker
    • Herr Wieck
    Ilse Zielstorff
    • Frau Wieck
    Ferenc Bács
    • Botschafter
    Júlia Zsolnai
    • Frau des Botschafters
    Áron Sipos
    • Arzt
    • (as Aron Sipos)
    Ernst Kahl
    • Zeichner Torresz
    Jörg Gillner
    • Chefkoch István
    Denis Moschitto
    Denis Moschitto
    • Lehrling Inas
    István Mikó
    • Kartoffelhändler
    Michael Gampe
    • Direktor Novak
    Karl Fischer
    Karl Fischer
    • Herr Svoboda
    Markus Hering
    • Herr Schwitz
    • Director
      • Rolf Schübel
    • Writers
      • Ruth Toma
      • Rolf Schübel
      • Nick Barkow
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      The Nazi called Wieck, played by Ben Becker, is a fictionalized SS Col. Kurt Becher, the who was acquitted in Nuremberg of war crimes and who ended up the richest man in Germany.
    • Goofs
      When the trio goes to a movie theater, they watch a newsreel that declares that the song "Gloomy Sunday" "drove 157 people in Hungary to suicide in the past eight weeks." We don't know whether that statement ever actually appeared in a German newsreel during the war. In any event, there is no evidence that the song ever actually drove more than a handful of people--if any--to suicide.
    • Quotes

      László: Everyone would like it all: something for the body, something for the soul. Something that fills you up, something that makes you hungry.

    • Connections
      Featured in Die Männer vom K3: Jugendliebe (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Szomorú Vasárnap/Gloomy Sunday
      Music by Rezsö Seress

      Lyrics by László Jávor

      English lyrics by Sam Lewis (as Sam M. Lewis)

      Akla Musikverlag Berlin

    User reviews60

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    Anatomy of wishfulness
    The charm of this film consist in the way to tell old things, in the description art of a well - known world.

    "Gloomy Sunday" is a kind of Frankenstein's creature: pieces of "Lili Marleen", "Casablanca" or "The story of 1900", slices of Hungarian's atmosphere, Nazi ghost and menage en trois.

    For all that, it is a good movie, his virtue is, in fact, just absence of originality. Like many other movies, the spell is result of a mysterious flavor who persist in your memory months, years and in special moment it saves the image of a sweet trip.

    Undoubtedly, it is the story of a song, in same measure that the song is the only character. But, at second sight, it is a warm homage to Mitteleuropa, the gorgeous Kakania's spirit. The lost of youth and the last recollection's skin. The shadow of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" is powerful and insidious.

    A subtle wishfulness anatomy. And a song like his backbone.
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    • Jan 6, 2007

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 21, 1999 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • Hungary
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
      • Hungarian
    • Also known as
      • The Piano Player
    • Filming locations
      • Budapest, Hungary
    • Production companies
      • Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion
      • Dom Film GmbH
      • PolyGram Filmproduktion
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $585,604
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,102
      • Jun 22, 2003
    • Gross worldwide
      • $646,532
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 52 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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