Movie Settings Database

Gloomy Sunday

Where:

🇭🇺 Hungary

When:

The 1930s The 1940s

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.

Released in 1999 — 112 minutes

Genres:

Drama Romance

Languages:

English German Hungarian