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.
Ilona
László
Hans Wieck
András
Ilonas Sohn
Geigenspieler
Der alte Wieck
Frau Wieck
Botschafter
Frau Botschafter
Chefkoch Istvan
Lehrling Inas
Kartoffelhändler
Direktor Novak
Herr Svoboda
Herr Schwitz
Postbote
Herr Mendel
Fräulein Mendel
Professor Tajtelbaum
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