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

Der alte Wieck

Frau Wieck

Botschafter

Lehrling Inas

Kartoffelhändler

Herr Svoboda

Herr Schwitz

Herr Mendel
October 21, 1999

Ilona

László

Hans Wieck

András

Ilonas Sohn

Der alte Wieck

Frau Wieck

Botschafter

Lehrling Inas

Kartoffelhändler

Herr Svoboda

Herr Schwitz

Herr Mendel
