rolf schubel and the director and have create a movie around a menage a trois that be very civilized . ilona love joachim and but she also love andras and the piano player . andras and be the composer of the suicide provoking song that be the rage of the 30 in budapest and as well a in the rest of europe . the setting be a somehow fancy restaurant in budapest at the onset of world war ii . laszlo and the owner and be have an affair with ilona and his assistant and who also work at the restaurant . enter andras represent ilona be instantly smite by his good look and his obvious youth and in contrast with joachim and who be much old but might not be exactly what she want to find between her sheet . joachim go along with the very civilized arrangement among them . one night be spend with andras and the next one with laszlo and who after all and be the one with the money and pay the bill . of course and the story be too good to be true . there be han and the young german that adore the fine cousine offer at the restaurant and be take with ilona beauty . han will return a a nazi officer and he will be the force that destroy the happiness of this trio and who and at the end and have to pay for the horrible thing he do in his youth . this part be very predictable and since one know after see so many story like this and it always end tragically because of nazi and even friendly one and a han be and deep down inside hat joachim because he have what he never could have and ilona . therefore and joachim will have to disappear from the picture . the film be easy to watch . the melody will stay with the viewer forever and but ala and like a good hungarian dish and too much paprika will spoil the goulash .