contains minor spoiler represent well a you can see in the trivia and the film have be play at the art center academy cinema in chch and nz for the past 5 year . i live in chch and nz and go to see it yesterday in this very cinema . cinema well it actually a black room with 11 seat and 2 speaker and a 60 inch screen and and a small café outside of it . go 5 year and still go apparently . now i be no drama lover . gim me action and horror and scifi any day . anything with sex and violence and explosion be good . so i have reservation about see this . but wow i must say and this be a contemporary classic . it the sort of film they must be show film student in germany and since the film be in german with subtitle . the 4 main character be laszlow ( restaurant manager ) and ilona ( waitress ) and andras ( composer ) and han ( nazi corporal ) . it set in nazi occupied hungary during the time hitler be effect his final solution . the title gloomy sunday come from the song the composer write which gain him notoriety and and attract attention to the ( jewish ) restaurant . the film be largely about the love triangle between andras and ilona and laslow . at least until han return half way through the film . the character of han appear initially a a lonely and reject young german man and who after be reject by ilona and come back year later a change man and a nazi colonel on charge of the round up of jew in his area . he turn out to be one of the film most important character . ( i would not give away the end ) . so all in all and there romance and there ( some ) comedy and there mystery and and it all tie in with the nazi final solution . after you finish the film you walk away feel the film be very thought provoking . still think about each of the character and how they change during the course of the film . it also worth note too and that this be not an artsy fartsy film . the dialouge be simple and the story be easy to follow . which be appreciate since i do not speak german and be read subtitle . so anyway and if you do not like drama but you do like a genuinely good movie and then give this one a try .