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.
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
