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7.8/10
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Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.Follows three men who are in love with a beautiful waitress during World War II: an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician, and an erratic businessman.
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- 7 wins & 5 nominations
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- TriviaThe Nazi called Wieck, played by Ben Becker, is a fictionalized SS Col. Kurt Becher, the who was acquitted in Nuremberg of war crimes and who ended up the richest man in Germany.
- GoofsWhen the trio goes to a movie theater, they watch a newsreel that declares that the song "Gloomy Sunday" "drove 157 people in Hungary to suicide in the past eight weeks." We don't know whether that statement ever actually appeared in a German newsreel during the war. In any event, there is no evidence that the song ever actually drove more than a handful of people--if any--to suicide.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Die Männer vom K3: Jugendliebe (1999)
- SoundtracksSzomorú Vasárnap/Gloomy Sunday
Music by Rezsö Seress
Lyrics by László Jávor
English lyrics by Sam Lewis (as Sam M. Lewis)
Akla Musikverlag Berlin
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Excellent movie
It doesn't happen very often that I rate a movie 10 out of 10. Not even "Citizen Cane" got this highest mark.
But "Gloomy Sunday" really deserves it. A film that brings real pulsating life onto the big screen: Love - (mainly) three men who try to find their luck with the same woman.
Friendship - between two men and a woman. Loyalty to the end. Betrayal - Hans turns out not to be a real friend of Ilona and László. Melancholia - they do what they have to do, what life demands of them. Passion - in the good and the bad sense of that word. Revenge - not all sinners can get away with it, even if it takes time... The background for all this is the 30s and 40s in Budapest, Hungary, the Nazi threat right before your entrance door.
You might argue that the song itself isn't as powerful as you might expect it. All right. But the script is superb, a story that could really have happened like this, a narrative that doesn't bore you and develops it's characters properly so you understand them. Without inflating them to some unrealistic capsules. The figures aren't painted black and white, there is the grey you usually find in real life. The performances of the main actors are superb. Thinking of Ben Becker and Joachim Król this isn't a surprise. But also Erika Marozán and Stefano Dionisi, which I haven't seen in another movie before, do everything to grant them an Academy Award.
Maybe I can't express my admiration properly in English (which is a foreign language for me), but if anything I wrote gave you the idea that the movie might be interesting ... give it a try!
But "Gloomy Sunday" really deserves it. A film that brings real pulsating life onto the big screen: Love - (mainly) three men who try to find their luck with the same woman.
Friendship - between two men and a woman. Loyalty to the end. Betrayal - Hans turns out not to be a real friend of Ilona and László. Melancholia - they do what they have to do, what life demands of them. Passion - in the good and the bad sense of that word. Revenge - not all sinners can get away with it, even if it takes time... The background for all this is the 30s and 40s in Budapest, Hungary, the Nazi threat right before your entrance door.
You might argue that the song itself isn't as powerful as you might expect it. All right. But the script is superb, a story that could really have happened like this, a narrative that doesn't bore you and develops it's characters properly so you understand them. Without inflating them to some unrealistic capsules. The figures aren't painted black and white, there is the grey you usually find in real life. The performances of the main actors are superb. Thinking of Ben Becker and Joachim Król this isn't a surprise. But also Erika Marozán and Stefano Dionisi, which I haven't seen in another movie before, do everything to grant them an Academy Award.
Maybe I can't express my admiration properly in English (which is a foreign language for me), but if anything I wrote gave you the idea that the movie might be interesting ... give it a try!
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- Dec 29, 2002
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $585,604
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,102
- Jun 22, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $646,532
- Runtime1 hour 52 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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