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.
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Erika Marozsán as Ilona
Joachim Król as László
Ben Becker as Hans Wieck
Stefano Dionisi as András
András Bálint as Ilonas Sohn
Géza Boros as Geigenspieler
Rolf Becker as Der alte Wieck
Ilse Zielstorff as Frau Wieck
Ferenc Bács as Botschafter
Júlia Zsolnai as Frau Botschafter
Áron Sipos as Arzt (as Aron Sipos)
Ernst Kahl as Zeichner Torresz
Jörg Gillner as Chefkoch Istvan
Denis Moschitto as Lehrling Inas
István Mikó as Kartoffelhändler
Michael Gampe as Direktor Novak
Karl Fischer as Herr Svoboda
Markus Hering as Herr Schwitz
Werner Brehm as Postbote
Wanja Mues as Herr Mendel
Dorka Gryllus as Fräulein Mendel
Tibor Kenderesi as Professor Tajtelbaum
Anna Ráckevei as Tajtelbaums Nichte
István Kanizsay as Journalist im Café
Veit Stübner as Weinlieferant
Márta Bakó as Kerzenverkäuferin
Sebastian Koch as Obersturmbannführer Eichbaum
Ulrike Grote as Frau Häberle
László I. Kish as Standartenführer Schnefke
Ferenc Némethy as Alter Jude in Wiecks Büro
Stefan Weinert as SS-Offizier
Zsuzsa Mányai as Lászlós Nachbarin
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