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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Timothy Hutton | ... | David Norton | |
| Lucía Jiménez | ... | Silvia | |
| David Kelly | ... | Frank Kovak | |
| Georgia Mackenzie | ... | Jane | |
| Gary Piquer | ... | Jaume | |
| Annette Badland | ... | Kathy | |
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Iván Morales | ... | Charlie |
| Colin Stinton | ... | Encargado Consulado | |
| Nicholas Boulton | ... | Funcionario Consulado | |
| Jeff Harding | ... | Gerente Sanatorio | |
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Jorge Bosch | ... | Forense |
| Luis Callejo | ... | Encargado Cuevas | |
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Daniel Strauss | ... | Médico Silvia (as Dan Strauss) |
| Molly Malcolm | ... | Psicóloga | |
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Keith Bartlett | ... | Admirador |
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A sci-fi writer (Hutton) is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's become lured into a trap.
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12 January 2007 (Spain) See more »Also Known As:
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(Original Title: Szomorú Vasárnap)
Music by Rezsö Seress
Lyrics by László Jávor
English Lyrics by Sam Lewis (as Sam M. Lewis)
Adapted for The Kovak Box (2006) by Roque Baños
Performed by Lucía Jiménez
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In the end credits the word "Psychologist" appears as "Phsycologist". See more »Soundtracks
Gloomy Sunday(Original Title: Szomorú Vasárnap)
Music by Rezsö Seress
Lyrics by László Jávor
English Lyrics by Sam Lewis (as Sam M. Lewis)
Adapted for The Kovak Box (2006) by Roque Baños
Performed by Lucía Jiménez
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"La caja Kovak" follows American science-fiction best-selling author David Norton (Timothy Hutton), who goes on a part business, part pleasure trip to the Spanish island of Mallorca with his girlfriend. He proposes to her and she accepts. On that very night, she jumps off their hotel balcony and kills herself after a short stay at the local hospital. In the bed next to her is Sylvia (Lucía Jiménez), a young woman who found herself jumping off the balcony without having any recollection of how and why she did it. Both women did it right after their phone rang and the song "Gloomy Sunday" began to play on the other end of the line. Together, David and Sylvia decide to try and solve the mystery.
The introduction is well done and it lures you into watching more, wanting to know how a song can make apparently normal people want to kill themselves. However, it evolves into a bizarre and not always efficient mix of thriller and science-fiction that completely fails to keep up the suspenseful and supernatural tone of the start, and is in fact rather dull and inconclusive at times. The characters are also quite poorly written -except for David Kelly's character maybe, the most interesting of the whole bunch- and they become quite predictable, as is the ending. Also, many clues thrown in along the way are never properly answered to.
All in all, it's an okay movie, one to watch and easily forget.