Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Ploydsge just watch it!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

2freensel I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

shakercoola Gloomy Sunday is a broad romance, smoothly crafted, and sometime charming film that fights off its imperfections: predictability and a crowbarred Holocaust subplot which is contrived. But, there is enough in the fine acting, elegant settings and locations for the viewer to easily stick with it and be entertained for its old fashioned fanciful romance. The schmaltzy soundtrack is to the film's credit.

valis1949 GLOOMY Sunday (dir. Rolf Schubel) A haunting and award winning German film that offers an imagined account of the making of the Hungarian pop song, 'Gloomy Sunday', and some of the mysterious history surrounding the tune. This song is tied to a recurring urban legend that claims that many people committed suicide with this song playing, however when you check the facts, there seems to be no real evidence to support this allegation. This lugubrious pop tune happened to be written at the outbreak of WWII, and to make the claim that this song caused more people to end their lives than the immediate prospect of a world war seems almost too silly to imagine. However, the film becomes more successful when it shuns the metaphysical aspects of the song's legend to develop a (fictional?) love triangle between the composer of the song and his employer and girlfriend who run the restaurant where the pianist entertains the patrons. The film slips into melodrama as the Germans occupy Hungary, and another possible lover of the restaurant's hostess is introduced who happens to become a colonel in the Nazi SS. Although the film veers dangerously close to mawkishness, the 'doomed romance' described in the film does allow for somewhat of an entertaining experience.

karin-vanattia I haven't watched such a good movie for a while. It includes history, love, psychological aspects. The music is wonderful, the actors are brilliant. It keeps your attention and has an unexpected ending. The story plays before, during and after the second world war. The main characters work in a Budapest restaurant. The owner (he is Jewish) is in a relationship with the waitress. He, Laszlo, hires pianist Andras, and both men love Ilona, which is further complicated when their regular customer Hans, an SS colonel, begins to pursue Ilona's affections. Hans wants to marry her, but she refuses his offer. When Hans jumps into a river, Laszlo saves his life and Hans promises him to protect him from the Nazis. Andras the composer falls in love with Ilona, too. They share Ilona who loves them both. Andras composes a song - "Gloomy Sunday". It is published and soon famous. The bad thing is that more and more people who listen to it commit suicide. More and more Jewish people are deported. Hans who went back to Germany return as a Nazi officer.....

jimmynz Contains minor spoilers: Well as you can see in the trivia, the film has been playing at the Arts Center Academy Cinema in Chch, NZ for the past 5 years. I live in Chch, NZ and went to see it yesterday in this very cinema. Cinema- well it's actually a black room with 11 seats, 2 speakers and a 60 inch screen, and a small café outside of it. Going 5 years and still going apparently...Now I'm no drama lover. Gimme action, horror, scifi any day. Anything with sex and violence and explosions are good. So I had reservations about seeing this. But wow I must say, this is a contemporary classic. It's the sort of film they must be showing film students in Germany, since the film is in German with subtitles.The 4 main characters are Laszlow (restaurant manager), Ilona (Waitress), Andras (Composer) and Hans (Nazi corporal). It's set in Nazi occupied Hungary during the time Hitler was effecting his 'final solution'. The title 'Gloomy Sunday' comes from the song the composer writes which gains him notoriety, and attracts attention to the (Jewish) restaurant. The film is largely about the love triangle between Andras, Ilona and Laslow. At least until Hans returns half way through the film.The character of Hans appears initially as a lonely, rejected young German man, who after being rejected by Ilona, comes back years later a changed man, a Nazi colonel on charge of the rounding up of Jews in his area. He turns out to be one of the films most 'important' characters. (I won't give away the ending).So all in all, there's romance, there's (some) comedy, there's mystery, and it's all tied in with the Nazi's 'final solution'. After you finish the film you walk away feeling the film is very thought provoking... still thinking about each of the characters and how they changed during the course of the film. It's also worth noting too, that this is not an 'artsy fartsy' film. The dialouge is simple and the story is easy to follow. WHich is appreciated since I don't speak German and was reading subtitles.So anyway, if you don't like dramas but you do like a genuinely good movie, then give this one a try.