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.
as Ilona
as László
as Hans Wieck
as András
as Ilonas Sohn
as Geigenspieler
as Der alte Wieck
as Frau Wieck
as Botschafter
as Frau Botschafter
as Arzt (as Aron Sipos)
as Zeichner Torresz
as Chefkoch Istvan
as Lehrling Inas
as Kartoffelhändler
as Direktor Novak
as Herr Svoboda
as Herr Schwitz
as Postbote
as Herr Mendel
as Fräulein Mendel
as Professor Tajtelbaum
as Tajtelbaums Nichte
as Journalist im Café
as Weinlieferant
as Kerzenverkäuferin
as Obersturmbannführer Eichbaum
as Frau Häberle
as Standartenführer Schnefke
as Alter Jude in Wiecks Büro
as SS-Offizier
as Lászlós Nachbarin
