Gloomy Sunday

Name: Gloomy Sunday
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: November 7, 2003
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król, Stefano Dionisi

2003

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Arrow Releasing | Release Date: November 7, 2003

Starring: Erika Marozsán, Joachim Król, Stefano Dionisi

Summary: A romantic melodrama set in Budapest before and during the Holocaust.

Director: Rolf Schübel

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Runtime: 112 min

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Kevin Thomas

A beautiful period piece, set against one of the world's glorious cities, adding poignancy. Twists and turns heighten a gradually accruing effect, building to a risky moment of truth, a coup de théâtre that is as daring as it is satisfying. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

Moments of black comedy break up the melodrama – a newsreel depicts the song's "victims" and a Nazi secretary rages against her Duden grammar manual – but the overall tone is still that of a four-alarm weeper. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It's an old-fashioned romantic triangle, told with schmaltzy music on the sound track and a heroine with a smoky singing voice, and then the Nazis turn up and it gets very complicated and heartbreaking. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Is it possible for an historically -based Holocaust movie to be schmaltzy? This one sure comes close. Read full review

Noel Murray

Gloomy Sunday's success in transcending its own clichés and conventionality -- at least until the morose finale -- is due in part to the story's primal romantic pull, aided by attractive actors who either stare longingly into each other's eyes or cavort in states of undress. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Who knew that one of Billie Holiday's most haunting songs was written in Budapest in the 1930s? I didn't until I saw Gloomy Sunday, a German film, shot in Hungary and directed by Rolf Schubel, that I enjoyed quite a lot, even though it's all over the map in more ways than one.

Scott Foundas

There's a whiff of exploitation about any movie that claims the Holocaust as a “backdrop,” and Rolf Schübel’s treacly tale of three men lovesick for the same blue-eyed beauty fairly reeks of it. Read full review

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GeorgeG.

Sep 22, 2006

An exquisite homage to Casablanca, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et Jim, and Schindler's List, this film transcends them all and enacts a separate peace (and vengeance) of its own.

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nicpame

Mar 22, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. فیلم در فضای جنگ جهانی دو و در مورد شکل گیری اهنگ معروف یکشنبه ی غم انگیز اتفاق میفته
بازی ها انچنان قوی و حرفه ای نیست ولی تا حد قابل قبولی میشه با فیلم ارتباط برقرار کرد
عمدتا به لطف ارتباطیه که با اون آهنگ برقرار کردی قبلا
و حالا داستان شکل گیریش رو میبینی و همدل میشی… Expand

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