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A Balasaur Score of 75 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 84%, Metacritic 60/100. Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 83% of the 1,964 1990s drama movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic60/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
73 audience votes
Key crew
- Rolf SchübelDirector
- Rolf SchübelScreenplay
- Ruth TomaScreenplay
- Detlef PetersenOriginal Music Composer
- Rezsö SeressOriginal Music Composer
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
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Themes
lovesicknessjealousybudapest, hungarynazilove trianglebirthdayblackmailholocaust (shoah)deportationjew persecutionhungarymenage a trois