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世紀「音樂奇案」首度搬上銀幕
根據死亡之歌"憂鬱的星期天"真實個案
及暢銷小說"布達佩斯之戀"改編

Gloomy Sunday

《布達佩斯之戀》

囊括6項電影大獎

- 包 括 -

【最佳劇本】【最佳導演】【最佳攝影】

浪漫、迷人...激動心弦…

9月28日獻映

VII PILLARS ENTERTAINMENT LTD.
www.viipillars.com

一首觸動心靈的歌曲，一個死亡的世代，
一段錯綜複雜的四角關係…浪漫、迷人…激動心弦…

《布達佩斯之戀》

影 評

一齣美麗的古典電影…大膽創新，令人非常滿意。
- Kevin Thomas LOS ANGELES TIMES

一部矚目難忘的電影。
- Loren King CHICAGO TRIBUNE

令人著迷的氣氛，難得一見的古典浪漫。
- Kirk Honeycutt THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

30年代經典金曲Gloomy Sunday，加上優秀的演員及精彩的劇本，
三者混為一體，令這部風格清新的影片更形出色。
- Derek Elley VARIETY

演員出色、佈景輝煌、醉人樂曲，深深地吸引你。
- V.A. Musetto NEW YORK POST

魔幻的氣氛令觀眾的情緒隨之起伏跌蕩。
- Mike LaSalle SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

這個故事有情慾、愛情、友情、貪婪，還有懾人的音樂，
有什麼比這更好？
- Jean Lowerison SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN

這悲哀浪漫的故事，如詩如畫，既高雅，亦感人，令人瞠目結舌。
- Gregory Weinkauf NEW TIMES

這是一部扣人心弦的戰爭電影，也是一個迷人的浪漫故事。
- Dennis Schwartz OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS

令人熱血沸騰，激動人心的情節肯定了愛情的力量和反彈力。
- Philip Wuntch DALLAS MORNING NEWS

故事簡介

一個死亡的世代，
一首觸動心靈的歌曲，
一段錯綜複雜的四角關係…

布達佩斯之戀（Gloomy Sunday）發生在1930年代匈牙利首都布達佩斯。

拉士路和伊蓮娜經營的餐廳憑著一首歌曲而舉世馳名，這首 "憂鬱的星期天"不單打開聽眾的心扉，其憂鬱之情更深入知音者的心窩。

年青鋼琴師安拉斯為伊蓮娜創作這首歌，目的並非想憑歌寄意，萬料不到伊人竟同時對兩位俊男傾心。這段不正常的三角戀情在互相遷就下總算順利展開，正當三人自得其樂之際，德國籍青年漢斯韋克突然出現，他被那歌曲吸引，也被伊蓮娜的艷光迷倒，一見鍾情，甚至向她求婚，可惜被婉言拒絕。

數年後，德國佔領布達佩斯，漢斯也重返該市，這個操生殺大權的高級軍官，揚言要摧毀伊蓮娜的三角關係...

小說

原著作者力克巴高

Gloomy Sunday 改編自1988年創作的小說。作品以尖銳的寓言式手法，刻劃出享樂主義者與敵人之間的鬥爭。

小說的主角舒偉克軍官以卑鄙的手段對待他的朋友，彼此在早一天是朋友，但翌晨可能已成為刑場上的犯人，他此舉除了可鞏固權力，更可以藉此扶搖直上，官運亨通，何樂而不為呢？

故事雖然發生在德國佔領匈牙利期間，其實這情況在現今社會也屢見不鮮。在戰後的德國，很多社會名人為求攀上更高的權位，甘於改變自己的政治立場。

作者為免開罪德國總統、總理及諸位電視主播，在小說中以影射的名字代替原本的人物，例如卡拉班代表卡拉揚，韋克代表卻克貝加，奧古思史尼克代表漢斯馬田史尼耶。小說也提及這些歷史人物的近況，韋克已不再在傳媒上出現，他已歸隱田園，過著平淡的生活。

這故事反覆地反映德國的歷史，風格類似布萊希特，也近似杜告斯基。本片情感洋溢，主角伊蓮娜、沙保、安拉斯和韋克的四角戀情，為觀眾帶來無限的衝擊。

力克巴高生於1928年，做過Stern雜誌的海外編輯及特派記者，曾長駐紐約、倫敦及東京二十年，最後定居於漢堡，成為一個自由作家，他也是本片的劇本創作顧問。

歌曲
 憂鬱的星期天
作曲: Rezso Seress
作詞: Lau Chun Sing
(原著歌詞: László Jávor)

星期天令我神傷
時光流逝令我輾轉難眠
親愛的
我正活在暗晦中
潔白的小花
再也不能喚醒你
你已安躺在黑色的靈車上
天使也未能挽回你的性命
如果我要加入你的行列
可會令天使感到憤怒

憂鬱的星期天

憂鬱的星期天
星期天令我神傷
暗晦在縈繞著我
我的心意已決
決意將這一切終結
燭光和弔唁隨之而來
請他們別為我哭泣
我此去是心甘情願的
死亡不是虛無的夢
唯有一死才可以跟你纏綿
只要我一息尚存
也會為你衷心祝禱

憂鬱的星期天

夢… 那只不過是一場夢
夢醒時分
你正在我的心窩裡酣睡
親愛的
但願我的夢沒有驚擾你
我的心正向你傾訴
我是多麼的想你

憂鬱的星期天

歌曲的歷史
 1935年匈牙利作曲家塞萊斯在國內一間餐廳作了這首歌。他沒料到會一曲成名。這一首被稱為"導人自殺的金曲"竟然風行全球，有超過一百個演唱版本。

這歌曲雖然已不再令人產生輕生之念，但它的感染力至今仍長存不息。

歌曲的歷程 (Jenó Pálmai, "Az Est" newspaper, Nov. 1935)
 Gloomy Sunday 三年前首次發行的時候，我問過唱片公司的老闆怎麼會這樣？他作出以下的答覆。

"我認為它是一首有新意、極優秀的匈牙利藝術歌曲，它有法國歌劇的味道，至今已有超過五百個版本，目前更已收錄在兩張唱片集及五張大碟中，也多次在電台內演奏。這首歌成為奪命金曲，實在是我始料不及，我對此深感遺憾，這不是我們的錯，那些自殺的人一早已有輕生的念頭，他們只不過是推諉於這首歌。"

這首名曲由利素塞萊斯創作，作詞人是拉士路查華，我問拉士路："你對於五個人聽了你的歌詞後自殺有何意見？"他沒有直接回答，坐回沙發上再答道："寫歌詞是可怕的工作，Gloomy Sunday是一首詩，但這首詩竟成為歌詞，更是一首流行曲的歌詞。"他嘆息一聲後，再補充說："很可惜，這首詩不是以書本形式發表。"

他絕對肯定，他的詩若不是以歌詞形式出現，那五個人便不會自殺。

"但我要講清楚，並非每個人聽了Gloomy Sunday便會自尋短見。"

影評

"A Beautiful Period Piece…
a coup de théatre that is as daring as it is satisfying."
一齣美麗的古典電影…大膽創新，令人非常滿意。
- Kevin Thomas LOS ANGELES TIMES

"Gloomy Sunday is a memorable moment in a remarkable movie."
是一部矚目難忘的電影。
- Loren King CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Long on atmosphere and Old World charm."
歷久常新的作品。
- Kirk Honeycutt THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"The iconic '30s song "Gloomy Sunday' gets a distinctive celluloid setting
in this well-player, cleverly scripted pic in which music
and character are inextricably combined."
30年代經典金曲 Gloomy Sunday，加上優秀的演員及精彩的劇本，
三者混為一體，令這部風格清新的影片更形出色。
- Derek Elley VARIETY

"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."
一個三角戀故事，配以憂怨的樂曲及迷霧的悅耳歌聲，當納粹軍人出現後，令這段戀情變得複雜及傷感。
- Roger Ebert CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"The fine cast, the elegant settings and the swoony title song somehow draw you in."
演員出色、佈景輝煌、醉人樂曲，深深地吸引你。
- V.A. Musetto NEW YORK POST

"Gloomy Sunday has a mood and a magic about it that elicit emotion from the beginning and make an audience follow it down its curving and melancholy path."
魔幻的氣氛令觀眾的情緒隨之起伏跌蕩。
- Mike LaSalle SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"A story of love, lust, betrayal, friendship, the power of music and greed.
How much better can it get?"
這個故事有情慾、愛情、友情、貪婪，還有懾人的音樂，有什麼比這更好？
- Jean Lowerison SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN

"A nicely weepy melodrama."
可歌可泣的劇情片。
- Moira MacDonald SEATTLE TIMES

"Is it possible for a historically - based Holocaust movie to be schmaltzy?
This one sure comes close."
歷史題材加上大量人命傷亡能否拍成一部憂怨的電影呢？本片做得到。
- Elizabeth Weitzman NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"It does come pretty close to being as good a time as you could
conceivably have at a movie that deals with this kind of material."
這類題材的電影，給你意外的驚喜。
- Bob Strauss LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

"This tragic romance is elegant, picturesque, sensuous, and rather stilted."
這悲哀浪漫的故事，如詩如畫，既高雅，亦感人，令人瞠目結舌。
- Gregory Weinkauf NEW TIMES

"A handsome, romantic and altogether engrossing tale
that should absolutely please fans of "the old-fashioned tearjerker."
俊男美女的舊式浪漫故事，賺人熱淚，喜歡這類電影的影迷定會雀躍。
- Scott Weinberg EFILMCRITIC.COM

"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."
有宣傳謂，連串自殺案件的背後是因為三男愛上一女這個故事而起。
- Ella Taylor L.A. WEEKLY

"Its strong suit is that it's a richly woven war drama
that also tells a fascinating romantic story."
這是一部扣人心弦的戰爭電影，也是一個迷人的浪漫故事。
- Dennis Schwartz OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS

"It's a stirring and provocative affirmation of the power and resilience of love."
令人熱血沸騰，激動人心的情節肯定了愛情的力量和反彈力。
- Philip Wuntch DALLAS MORNING NEWS

"It has enough opulent, oversized romanticism to make it a guilty pleasure, not to mention three attractive and appealing characters and, of course, that song."
豐富的浪漫情節令人讚歎，更何況有三位討好的角色及悅耳的主題曲。
- Terry Lawson DETROIT FREE PRESS

有關死亡之歌歷史及個案

簡史

~《魔鬼的邀請書》 易俊杰

七十多年前，音樂史上曾發生過一宗著名的「國際音樂奇案」：人們因聽這首樂曲而自殺的事件接連不斷地發生。

當時某天，在比利時的某酒吧，人們正在一邊品著美酒，一邊聽音樂。當樂隊剛剛演奏完法國作曲家魯蘭斯．查理斯創作的《黑色的星期天》這首管弦樂曲時，就聽到一聲歇斯底里的大喊：「我實在受不了啦！」只見一名匈牙利青年一仰脖子喝光了杯中酒，掏出手槍朝自己太陽穴扣動扳機「砰」的一聲就倒在血泊裡。

一名女警察對此案進行調查，但費盡九牛二虎之力，也查不出這青年為什麼要自殺。最後，她抱著僥倖心理買來一張那天樂隊演奏過的《黑色的星期天》這唱片，心想，也許從這裡可以找到一點破案的蛛絲馬跡。她把唱片放了一遍後，結果也自殺了。人們在她的辦公桌上發現她留給警察局長的信「局長閣下，我受理的案件不用繼續偵查了，其兇手就是樂曲黑色的星期天。我在聽這首曲子時，也忍受不了它那悲傷旋律的刺激，只好謝絕人世了。」

無獨有偶。美國紐約市一位開朗活潑的女打字員與人閒聊時，聽說 《黑色的星期天》如何使人傷感，便好奇地借了這首樂曲的唱片回家聽。第二天她沒有去上班，人們在她房間發現她已自殺身亡，唱機上正放著那張《黑色的星期天》的唱片。她在遺書中說：「我無法忍受它的旋律，這首歌就是我的葬禮曲目。」

在華盛頓，有位剛成名的鋼琴演奏家應邀參加一個沙龍聚會，並為來賓演奏。席間一位來賓突然接到她母親車禍身亡的長途電話，因那天正好是星期天，便請鋼琴家為其母演奏《黑色的星期天》以示哀悼。鋼琴家極不情願地彈了這首曲子，剛演奏完畢，便由於過度悲傷，導致心臟病發作而撲倒在鋼琴上，再也沒有起來。

在意大利米蘭，一個音樂家聽說了這些奇聞之後感到困惑不解，不相信 《黑色的星期天》會造成如此嚴重的後果，便試著在自己客廳用鋼琴彈奏了一遍竟也死在鋼琴旁，並在《黑色的星期天》的樂譜上寫下這樣的遺言：「這樂曲的旋律太殘酷了，這不是人類所能忍受的曲子，毀掉它吧，不然會有更多的人因受刺激而喪命。」

《黑色的星期天》當時被人們稱為「魔鬼的邀請書」，至少有100人因聽了它而自殺，因而被查禁長達13年之久。關於作曲家本人創作曲子的動機，連精神分析家和心理學家也無法作出圓滿的解釋。

由於自殺的人越來越多，美、英、法、西班子等諸多國家的電台便召開了一次特別會議，號召歐美各國聯合抵制《黑色的星期天》。

這首殺人的樂曲終於被銷毀了，作者也因為內疚而在臨終前懺悔道：「沒想到，這首樂曲給人類帶來了如此多的災難，讓上帝在另一個世界來懲罰我的靈魂吧！」

詳史

~《不可駕馭的音符》 周譽鎧

特別的創作及發行背景

在七十年前，亦即是1933年，一位名叫Rezso Seress (1899-1968) 的匈牙利作曲家一天與其未婚妻因意見不合而分手。在兩星期後的一天，當天下著滂沱大雨，失落的Seress望著雨點，嘆息了一句：「What a Gloomy Sunday!(真是一個絕望的星期天！)」，靈感卻突然如

泉水湧現，三十分鐘後，他寫下了一首在音樂史上最淒美壯美的歌曲--《Gloomy Sunday》（憂鬱的星期天）。

接著的一個月，Seress為這首曲四出尋找出版商，卻被多番拒絕，其中一位出版商人說：「並不因為這是一首憂傷的歌曲，而是這曲所流露出來的那種可懾人心魄的絕望神緒，這對任何聽眾都沒有好處。」但在幾個星期後，他總於說服到一間發行商去發行此曲了。

可是，之後兩三年所發生的事卻證明了當時那位出版商人所說的話不無道理。

首個悲劇的舞台--匈牙利布達佩斯

Joseph Keller 是布達佩斯的一名制鞋匠，在1936年2月，他在自己的 寓所自殺了。當地警方調查此案時，發現 Joseph 所留下的遺書中有

一段《Gloomy Sunday》 的歌詞，《Gloomy Sunday》一曲在這個時候 第一次顯示了它的魔力。

在《Gloomy Sunday》發行的那一年正值於第二次世界大戰其間。 當時匈牙利的自殺率是全世界之首，那個時候，自殺並不是一件太罕見的事。可是當《Gloomy Sunday》發行後，很多的自殺案都跟這首曲扯上了關係。當地，有兩名自殺者在聽一隊吉普塞的樂隊演奏《Gloomy Sunday》時，因抵受不了它的刺激，當場吞槍自殺。又據當時傳媒的報導， 有兩名紳士在夜總會聽樂隊演奏《Gloomy Sunday》，可是此曲令他們頭痛不已，他們在離開夜總會時，竟拿出手槍，向著自己的腦袋開了槍。

離奇的自殺案

由於《Gloomy Sunday》的影響是如此的震撼，它流傳的速度極之迅速。 就在同一年（1936年），它便由匈牙利流傳遍及歐洲和英美一帶，而且十分流行，在那時開始，有關《Gloomy Sunday》的自殺案便開始接二連三地在 那一帶發生。

在德國的首都柏林，一名年輕的售貨員在抄寫《Gloomy Sunday》的歌譜後竟上吊自盡，當時那名售貨員生活上是沒有任何困難的。在羅馬，一名正騎著自行車派報的報童在街上聽到一個乞丐在哼著《Gloomy Sunday》的調子，他竟立即停下車，把自己身上的所有金錢都給了那乞丐，並隨即走到附近的一條河邊投河自盡。

在比利時，有一名匈牙利青年在酒吧邊喝酒邊聽著一隊樂隊演奏著的管弦樂，而當該隊樂隊演奏完《Gloomy Sunday》一曲後，他便因抵受不著該曲的刺激，忽然聲撕力竭地喊著，之後取出自己的手槍自殺身忙。當地警方在調查此案時，一名有參與調查的女警希望在《Gloomy Sunday》一曲中得到一點線索，可惜，該名女警亦慘被《Gloomy Sunday》一曲了結了生命。

此外，在當時的自殺勝地的多瑙河，有相當多的人投河自盡時，手中緊持著《Gloomy Sunday》的歌詞或曲譜，其中年紀最小的，只是一名14歲的小女孩。不過，《Gloomy Sunday》的影響力可說是無年齡的限制，一年過八十的老人在自己的家中哼唱著《Gloomy Sunday》，可是她卻越哼越傷心，最後哭著的從七樓跳下，自殺身忙。

在1940年，是《Gloomy Sunday》流入美國不久的時間，但已經被灌錄成唱片了，那首是由當時著名的爵士樂手Paul Robeson所演繹的英文版本。因此，《Gloomy Sunday》在美國的流行程度更勝於很多歐洲的國家。而因此，在當地與《Gloomy Sunday》有關的自殺案亦為數不少。

在紐約，有一位漂亮的女打字員，平日性情活潑開朗。一天，她在好奇心的驅使下，她借了一張《Gloomy Sunday》的唱片回家聽。翌日，

人們發現她的住所發生煤氣泄漏，而該名打字員就因為中煤氣毒而弊命了，在她的遺書中寫著：「我無法忍受這首的旋律，我現在只好告別人世了。《Gloomy Sunday》就是我的葬歌了。」

而在首都華盛頓，在一個沙龍聚會，有一位剛成名的鋼琴家應邀出席並為聚會的來賓彈奏鋼琴樂曲。在出席中一位來賓突然收到她母親在車禍中死亡的消息，於是她便請那位鋼琴家演奏一曲《Gloomy Sunday》以哀悼她的母親。鋼琴家知道此曲之前所引起的眾多自殺案件，本來並不願意彈奏，可是在賓客的多番請求下，終於答應了。他帶點不快地開始彈奏《Gloomy Sunday》，就在演奏完後，他因為哀傷過度而心臟病發，最後不治死亡。

在發生了如此之多的離奇自殺案後，在一天《紐約時報》的頭條中竟出現了一條令人震驚的標題：「過百匈牙利人在《Gloomy Sunday》的影響下自殺」，如此的新聞一出，立即引起了各方的討論。在歐美等地，有不少精神學家、心理學家，甚至靈學家探討《Gloomy Sunday》一曲的影響，但亦無法對它作出完滿的解釋，亦不能制止自殺的案件繼續發生。

Seress 眼見《Gloomy Sunday》如此知名，於是便向前度女友提出復合的要求，可惜，悲劇便發生了，這位女孩收到他的請求後的第二日便服毒自殺了，人們發現在她的屍體旁有一張上面寫著「Gloomy Sunday」二字的卡紙，她的死亦明顯地與《Gloomy Sunday》有關。

惟一的解決方法--禁播

終於，英國的BBC電台決定禁播《Gloomy Sunday》，美國和歐洲的其他國家如法國、西班牙等亦隨即仿效英國。其後多國的電台更召開了一個特別的會議，決議是歐美各國聯會抵制《Gloomy Sunday》，並將原版銷毀了。但當時，作者Seress 並沒有對決議提出反對，甚至沒有表示任何不滿。

在歐美所發生的自殺案果然明顯減少了，幾個月後，BBC 取消對《Gloomy Sunday》的禁播，不過播出的只是它的樂器版本。

這個版本很快又被灌錄成唱片。而在1941年8月，這首樂曲由黑人女歌手Billie Holiday重新演繹，這個版本成為了最受歡迎的一個版本，直到現在。

禁播後自至現在

可是仍有少數人經不起它的考驗而自尋短見，在紐約，有一名婦女在她的住所內服用了過量的巴比妥酸鹽（一種安眠鎮靜劑）而身忙，她死前用唱機重複地播放著《Gloomy Sunday》，直至死後，一名警員

才被這重複的音樂聲引來。雖然這件自殺案不能肯定和《Gloomy Sunday》有關，不過警方亦不排除 死者是因為聽了這首音樂後情緒低落而自殺的。

有關《Gloomy Sunday》的自殺案越來少見。直到1968年，作者Rezso Seress因感到再不能創作出像《Gloomy Sunday》般優秀的樂曲而感到絕望。此時，他選擇了結束自己的生命--跳樓自殺，當時他是六十九歲。他臨死前後悔地說：「我真沒想到這首樂曲會令到如此多人自殺，讓我的靈魂到令一個世界去接受上帝的懲罰吧！」。他因為《Gloomy Sunday》而世界聞名，但亦因為它而斷送了生命。

《Gloomy Sunday》一曲在Billie Holiday重灌後流行全世界，在最近的二三十年間，翻唱過此曲的歌手和演奏過此曲的樂隊不計其數，更有作家以此曲為題創作小說。在一些爵士音樂的節目中，仍不時可見到它的出現。

有關 Rezso Seress

~《不可駕馭的音符》 周譽鎧

Rezso Seress 為一名匈牙利的猶太裔男子，於1899年出生。Seress身材矮小，但為人有幽默感。他的一生最遺憾的是沒有受過良好的音樂教育，而亦因此鋼琴他並不彈得很好。他一生大多時間都是住在匈牙利布達佩斯一間叫做Kispipa (Little pipe) 的酒店中，為那裡的客人彈奏鋼琴。不過因為他是猶太人的關係，在第二次世界大戰期間， 他亦曾被人抓了去集中營中住過一陣子。

Seress過著一種矛盾而成功的生活。他雖然不能把鋼琴彈好，但他卻能以彈奏鋼琴來謀生；他一生雖然極為貧窮，卻能使當時一名漂亮的軍官夫人(Helen)願意離開她富有的丈夫而下嫁給他，而且Helen 其實是基督徒，她與一名猶太人通婚， 當時是十分哄動的。

Seress曾經創作過不少在匈牙利十分流行的民歌，可能歌曲內容不能普及國際，所以沒有外國人欣賞過。直至他完成了《Gloomy Sunday》 ， 這首曲的出現改變了Seress的一生。

《 Gloomy Sunday》一曲曾經令他的女友自殺，但亦使他揚名世界。

自《Gloomy Sunday》一曲成名後，曾探訪過他的名人多不勝數，Perharps Otto Klemperer 是四十年代的一名指揮家，他說Seress並不是一名音樂家，他只是一名天才。他的說話有著他的道理，Seress並沒有接受過良好的音樂教育，但卻能創造出如此優秀的樂曲，說他是天才也不為過；但亦因為他沒有好的音樂根底，所以不能說他是一名音樂家。其他探訪過Seress 的還有美國首位爵士歌手Louis Armstrong、 有天才樂手之稱的 Ray Charles、著名美藉影星 Spencer Tracy等等世界知名的人物。

直到1968年，Seress因感到再不能創作出像《Gloomy Sunday》般優秀的樂 曲而感到絕望，決定跳樓自殺，當時他是六十九歲。 《Gloomy Sunday》 一曲可說直接影響著他的一生。

演出者 專輯名稱 錄制方法 錄製年份 國籍 
Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Henry King & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Paul Robeson Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Damia Sombre Dimanche 10" 78rpm 1936 FR
Trio Piana-Garza-Kohan / Mercedes Simone Triste Domingo 10" 78rpm 1937 AR
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra Don't Fall Asleep 10" 78rpm 1940 US
Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1941 US
Billy Eckstine & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1946 US
Shelly Manne & Bill Russo Deep People LP 1951 US
Josh White Josh White Sings Ballads and Blues LP 1957 US
Woody Herman & his Orchestra Live at Peacock Lane Hollywood live LP 1958 US
Mel Torme Torme LP 1958 US
Bev Kelly Love Locked Out LP 1959 US
The Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments LP 1961 US
Johnny Griffin with Strings & Brass White Gardenia LP 1961 US
Sarah Vaughan The Divine One LP 1961 US
Peter Nero Hail The Conquering Hero LP 1963 US
Roy Hamilton Sentimental, Lonely and Blue LP 1964 US
Jimmy Smith Monster LP 1965 US
Stan Kenton The World We Know LP 1967 US
Genesis In The Beginning LP 1968 US
Carmen McRae The Sound Of Silence LP 1968 US
Ray Charles I'm All Yours-Baby! LP 1969 US
Jimmy Witherspoon Spoonful LP 1975 US
Lydia Lunch Queen of Siam LP 1980 US
Elvis Costello & the Attractions Trust LP 1981 UK
The Associates Sulk LP 1982 UK
Marc and The Mambas Torment And Toreros LP 1983 UK
Peter Wolf Lights Out LP 1985 US
Christian Death Atrocities LP 1986 US
Marianne Faithfull A Perfect Stranger comp. LP 1987 UK
Serge Gainsbourg You're Under Arrest LP 1987 FR
Carol Kidd The Night We Called It A Day LP 1990 US
Diamanda Galas The Singer LP 1992 US
Sinead O'Connor Am I Not Your Girl LP 1992 IR
Satan's Cheerleaders Infinity LP 1994 US
Gitane Demone With Love And Dementia live LP 1995 US
Sarah McLachlan Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff comp. LP 1996 CA
Lil Darling Hot Club All That Swing LP 1997 IT
Danny Michel Clear LP 1998 CA
Satan's Sadists Sympathetic Majesties Request comp. LP 1998 US
Bjork Stormy Weather comp. LP 1999 IS
Heather Nova Gloomy Sunday single 1999 BM
The Smithereens God Save The Smithereens LP 1999 US
Sarah Brightman La Luna LP 2000 UK
Kronos Quartet Kronos Caravan LP 2000 US
Ricky Nelson Legacy comp. LP 2000 ** US
Iva Bittova j.h. LP 2002 CZ

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About The Film

The Story

A woman between three men, a song that casts a treacherous spell, a love set in a murderous era - the film EIN LIED VON LIEBE UND TOD (A Song Of Love and Death) - GLOOMY SUNDAY leads right into the middle of Budapest during the 1930s.

Lászlò Szabó and Ilona Várnai run a restaurant which becomes famous due to a song. "Gloomy Sunday" opens the hearts of its listeners, but the melancholy within also skirts along the darkest depths.

The young house pianist András Aradi composed the ballad for Ilona - out of love. Bit Ilona's heart throbs for both men - for András and for Lászlò. A triangular relationship develops between them in which all of them find their happiness, more or less, until the German Hans Eberhard Wieck falls entirely under the spell of the song, and for Ilona's beauty as well. He even proposes marriage to her, but she turns him down.

A few years later Hans returns as an SS officer to a Budapest which meanwhile has been occupied by the Germans. A man with power to decide over life and death. A man who threatens to destroy the fragile balance between Ilona and her two men…

The Novel

Gloomy Sunday by Nick Barkow

"Gloomy Sunday" is based upon a novel written in 1988. The book's plot deals with an acerbic parable about epicureans and their natural enemies, about the story of all those good soldiers like Ha˙ek's Schwejk and those who befriend the Schwejks of this world in the evening, only to have them placed before a firing squad the next morning. Which, by the way, is the natural course of things, Then how else could it be that these people are always the ones to be promoted toward the top?

And, although the story takes place at the time of the German occupation of Hungry, it's still up-to-date in a very special way. Many of the figures appearing are synonymous with public personages who managed to attain high standing in the post-war FRG without regard for their pasts or political leanings.

Apart from direct allusions to the first federal chancellor and the president of the newly founded republic, to certain TV news anchormen form those days and others, the book is peppered with encrypted names: Karaben-Nemcy e.g. for Karajan, Dr. Wieck for Kurt A.E. Becher, August Schnefke for Hanns Martin Schleyer. Parallels to most recent historical developments are found here, too. To the Wiecks of the New Federal States, whose voices are no longer heard in the media and who have retired to the sumptuous quiet of lakeside areas like the Tegernsee….

It has all the makings of a short outline of German history repeating itself again and again: a little piece of Brecht, a little Tucholsky.

For the film, all of this becomes the vehicle upon which the emotion-laden and electrifying love story between Ilona, Szabo, Andràs and Wieck unfolds.

NICK BARKOW, born in 1928, is a free-lance author living in Hamburg after having spent twenty years working as an overseas editor and foreign correspondent for "Stern" magazine in, among others, such places as New York, London and Tokyo.

Barkow has been incorporated into the work on the screenplay, acting as a consultant.

The Song

Gloomy Sunday
Composed by: Rezso Seress
English Lyrics by: Sam M. Lewis
(Original Lyrics by: László Jávor)

Sunday is gloomy
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coach
Of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and I
Have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles
And prayers that are sad I know
Let them not weep
Let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul
I'll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you
How much I wanted you

Gloomy Sunday

The History of the Song

Hungary in 1935. The Hungarian composer Seress composes the song "Gloomy Sunday" in a Hungarian restaurant. He doesn't realize that this song - in a hundred interpretations - will achieve fame around the world as the "Suicides' Hymnsong".

The artistic impact of the song has remained intact to the present day - although these days the song is no longer directly connected with suicide attempts…

The Path the Song Took

"Why?", I asked the owner of the 'music publishing house' which first published 'Gloomy Sunday' three years ago.

"In my opinion, 'Gloomy Sunday' is an outstanding, new kind of composition, namely a Hungarian 'art song' with the character of a chanson. 500 copies have been brought out up till now, but it's also contained in two albums, and five gramophone recordings of it have also been made. It's also being sung on the radio. I'm really very sorry that it's become the hymn for those committing suicide. That was not our intention, but, my God … the path a song takes is unpredictable. It's not our fault that people have chosen that particular one as the reason to kill themselves or to take with them when they want to die." (…)

The song's music was composed by Rezsó Seress, the lyrics were written by László Jávor.

"What do you have to say about five people dying because of your poem?", I asked László. He didn't respond directly to the question. Sitting back on the cushions, he said, "Writing text is a horrible business. 'Gloomy Sunday' is a poem. A poem which has been reduced to text through everyday use: it developed into a pop-song, a hit." After a sigh he added, "It's a shame it wasn't published in a book." He is absolutely certain that if that had been the case, no five people would have died because of it.

"But, if you'll allow, I'd like to make it quite clear: Not everyone will become a suicide because of 'Gloomy Sunday'."

(Jenó Pálmai, "Az Est" newspaper, Nov. 1935)

Reviews

"A Beautiful Period Piece…
a coup de théatre that is as daring as it is satisfying."
- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES

"The iconic '30s song "Gloomy Sunday' gets a distinctive celluloid setting in this well-player, cleverly scripted pic in which music and character are inextricably combined."
Derek Elley, VARIETY

"Gloomy Sunday is a memorable moment in a remarkable movie."
Loren King, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"Long on atmosphere and Old World charm."
Kirk Honeycutt, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Gloomy Sunday has a mood and a magic about it that elicit emotion from the beginning and make an audience follow it down its curving and melancholy path."
Mike LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"The fine cast, the elegant settings and the swoony title song somehow draw you in."
V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST

"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."
Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"A nicely weepy melodrama."
Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES

"A story of love, lust, betrayal, friendship, the power of music and greed. How much better can it get?"
Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN

"Is it possible for a historically - based Holocaust movie to be schmaltzy? This one sure comes close."
Elizabeth Weitzman, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

"It does come pretty close to being as good a time as you could conceivably have at a movie that deals with this kind of material."
Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

"This tragic romance is elegant, picturesque, sensuous, and rather stilted."
Gregory Weinkauf, NEW TIMES

"A handsome, romantic and altogether engrossing tale that should absolutely please fans of "the old-fashioned tearjerker."
Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM

"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."
Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY

"Each moment is perfectly played by the attractive cast of largely unknown (in the U.S. anyway) German actors.'
Shirley Sealy, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

"Its strong suit is that it's a richly woven war drama that also tells a fascinating romantic story."
Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS

"A nicely weepy melodrama."
Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES

"Like the legend of Gloomy Sunday itself, the film remains entertaining despite its dubious accuracy."
Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

"It's a stirring and provocative affirmation of the power and resilience of love."
Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS

"It has enough opulent, oversized romanticism to make it a guilty pleasure, not to mention three attractive and appealing characters and, of course, that song."
Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS

Artist Album Format Year  
Vincent Lopez & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Henry King & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Paul Robeson Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1936 * US
Damia Sombre Dimanche 10" 78rpm 1936 FR
Trio Piana-Garza-Kohan / Mercedes Simone Triste Domingo 10" 78rpm 1937 AR
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra Don't Fall Asleep 10" 78rpm 1940 US
Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1941 US
Billy Eckstine & his Orchestra Gloomy Sunday 10" 78rpm 1946 US
Shelly Manne & Bill Russo Deep People LP 1951 US
Josh White Josh White Sings Ballads and Blues LP 1957 US
Woody Herman & his Orchestra Live at Peacock Lane Hollywood live LP 1958 US
Mel Torme Torme LP 1958 US
Bev Kelly Love Locked Out LP 1959 US
The Bob Brookmeyer Orchestra Gloomy Sunday and Other Bright Moments LP 1961 US
Johnny Griffin with Strings & Brass White Gardenia LP 1961 US
Sarah Vaughan The Divine One LP 1961 US
Peter Nero Hail The Conquering Hero LP 1963 US
Roy Hamilton Sentimental, Lonely and Blue LP 1964 US
Jimmy Smith Monster LP 1965 US
Stan Kenton The World We Know LP 1967 US
Genesis In The Beginning LP 1968 US
Carmen McRae The Sound Of Silence LP 1968 US
Ray Charles I'm All Yours-Baby! LP 1969 US
Jimmy Witherspoon Spoonful LP 1975 US
Lydia Lunch Queen of Siam LP 1980 US
Elvis Costello & the Attractions Trust LP 1981 UK
The Associates Sulk LP 1982 UK
Marc and The Mambas Torment And Toreros LP 1983 UK
Peter Wolf Lights Out LP 1985 US
Christian Death Atrocities LP 1986 US
Marianne Faithfull A Perfect Stranger comp. LP 1987 UK
Serge Gainsbourg You're Under Arrest LP 1987 FR
Carol Kidd The Night We Called It A Day LP 1990 US
Diamanda Galas The Singer LP 1992 US
Sinead O'Connor Am I Not Your Girl LP 1992 IR
Satan's Cheerleaders Infinity LP 1994 US
Gitane Demone With Love And Dementia live LP 1995 US
Sarah McLachlan Rarities, B-Sides & Other Stuff comp. LP 1996 CA
Lil Darling Hot Club All That Swing LP 1997 IT
Danny Michel Clear LP 1998 CA
Satan's Sadists Sympathetic Majesties Request comp. LP 1998 US
Bjork Stormy Weather comp. LP 1999 IS
Heather Nova Gloomy Sunday single 1999 BM
The Smithereens God Save The Smithereens LP 1999 US
Sarah Brightman La Luna LP 2000 UK
Kronos Quartet Kronos Caravan LP 2000 US
Ricky Nelson Legacy comp. LP 2000 ** US
Iva Bittova j.h. LP 2002 CZ

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