Gloomy Sunday (1999) on Netflix
Budapest in the late 1930s. Restaurant owner László Szabó hires the pianist András Aradi, and both men fall for the waitress Ilona Várnai, as does the German Hans Wieck.
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Plot summary
In Budapest in the late 1930s, László Szabó runs a restaurant where Ilona Várnai waits tables and shares his life. He takes on a young pianist, András Aradi, and András and Ilona fall in love, while she stays with László and the two men keep working side by side. For Ilona's birthday András writes the song Gloomy Sunday. That same night the German businessman Hans Wieck, who shares her birthday, photographs Ilona and asks her to marry him. The song is recorded and becomes popular, then feared as its melody is tied to a series of suicides.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Academy Cinema in Christchurch, New Zealand, screened Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod every night for almost ten years, from its opening until the Christchurch earthquakes of February 2011.
