Jewish film gloomy sunday

Andras, a pianist who was inspired to write the song gloomy sunday. This contorted period melodrama, adapted from a book by nick barlow, constructs a creaky holocaust drama around the legend of gloomy sunday, a morbid hungarian art song that is alleged to have. Rutgers new jersey jewish film festival 2003 screened monsieur batignole, gloomy sunday, strange fruit, nobodys business, the sweetest sound, nowhere in africa, a. Is the film location of the restaurant in budapest. A beautiful woman, three men and a song that casts a treacherous spell over love in a murderous era. Berkshire jewish film festival congregation knesset israel. Andras then composes the song gloomy sunday which sweeps the world. The program includes some films that have already circulated on the festival and theatrical circuits, such as italys stylishly empty facing windows, hungarys moodily satisfying gloomy sunday. Set in budapest during the 1930s, the story centers around the fashionable restaurant szabo run by lazlo szabo and and ilona. All film screenings, lectures, and seminars taking place in doris duke theatre are cancelled until further notice. The rrated film is a love story set in 1930s budapest. The final film in this years series is gloomy sunday, which will appear at 6 p. The magic of music, the power of love, the evils of money, and the horror of genocide are the weighty themes tackled in gloomy sunday, a moving film inspired by actual events.

Its a broad romantic melodrama set in budapest before and during the holocaust, and that is not, you will agree, an ideal time to set a love story. Guests who have purchased tickets will be refunded through the method of payment used to make their purchase within the next ten business days. Based on the novel by nick barkow about the song gloomy sunday, the film. Szomoru vasarnap is a 1999 film, a germanhungarian coproduction. The berkshire jewish film festival is underwritten by berkshire bank, greylock federal credit union, jessie and bernard wolfson family foundation, spitztuchman charitable trust, and the john bergman charitable fund. Bit by bit in swedish with subtitles is about a 25yearold obsessed with nintendo and trying to make it through passover in time for. A story of jewish partisan resistance and bravery in wwii. Our films for 2011 2020 brjff baton rouge jewish film. Now its the inspiration for this marvelous film, a love story with a twist. The film is a haunting story of an intriguing love affair set at the outbreak of world war ii in 1930s budapest. Soon war comes, and while it is well known what the nazis are doing to the jews, but laszlo, who is jewish, and has had more than one chance to escape, remains. The honolulu jewish film festival programs will be rescheduled to a later date. 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. The clients who came to the restaurant always asked for this particular melody to be played on the grand piano.

Jewish film fest regroups georgia straight vancouvers. Grateful set for jewish film festival current publishing. Gloomy sunday 2020 east bay international jewish film festival. We find ourselves wanting to hear it again and again such is its hypnotic power. Historical events overtake erotic entanglements at a chic 1930s budapest cafe, in gloomy sunday, an intricate timejumping love story wrapped in wartime intrigue. There will be 20th anniversary screening of the classic film, gloomy sunday. Most famously sung by billie holiday, the evocative song gloomy sunday was notorious for allegedly driving people to suicide, and is the inspiration for this. The multiawardwinning german film gloomy sunday opens the festival. The film is high romance, rather like those american movies of the. It might seem that gloomy sunday begins as a remake of jules et jim, a film about a beautiful lovetriangle, bound to have a heartbreaking finish. Martina kudlacek, austriaczech republicswitzerlandgermany, 2001, 103min. San diego this year marks the 25 th anniversary of the san diego jewish film festival. Starring are joachim krol laszlo, jewish restaurant owner, stefano dionisi andras, pianist who creates gloomy. Set in belgium during wwii a jewish man, an aryan nazi, and a christian.

Filmed in 1999 but it didnt really matter for this period piece. His song of gloomy sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic. Amit epstein, germany, 15 min, german w english subtitles christian just renovated his new home when he learns that his grandmother with dementia, greta, is dying. Stefano dionisi, erika marozsan, joachim krol in gloomy sunday. And so it will, but not before the film transforms into a remake of schindlers list with a bitterly ironic reversal. Gloomy sunday film locations budapest forum tripadvisor. The 34th annual berkshire jewish film festival will return on july 6, 2020. The film lives and breathes, transporting viewers back to 1930s budapest with beautiful cinematography, a fascinatingly poignant musical component, and the most human of characters. The fresno jewish film series committee seeks to use the power of film and video to both. Gloomy sunday is a hauntingly beautiful gem of a movie, a unique blending of romance, drama, and tragedy all compressed under the relentless weight of history. Festivals mar del plata 1999 in competition, new york jewish festival 2000. Read more about gloomy sunday on internet movie database. Historical dramas 2020 east bay international jewish. Film gloomy sunday an intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and a fascist businessman, all fall in love with the same.

When the trio goes to a movie theater, they watch a newsreel that declares that the song gloomy sunday drove 157 people in hungary to suicide in the past eight weeks. The words to the song called gloomy sunday are full of despair. Is the cemetry scene filmed in the jewish cemetery. Set in hungary during world war ii, the film follows ilona and the three men who fall in love with her. Gloomy sunday 2020 east bay international jewish film. The restaurant owner laszlo hires the pianist andras to play in his restaurant. Erika marozsan, joachim krol, ben becker, stefano dionisi, andras balint.

The resulting song gloomy sunday is recorded and though very popular at first soon becomes feared by the. Based on the novel by nick barkow about the song gloomy sunday, the film examines the history of the song to see how, and why, it became known as the hungarian suicide song. Jews of the lbc rejoice as they finally get a film fest all their own. Mar del plata film festival switzerland 16 december 1999 german speaking region hungary 6 april 2000. Toronto jewish film festival artistic director helen zuckerman said this older movie is included because it has been extremely popular at that festival. The first long beach jewish film festival will be held today and tomorrow, thanks to the support of the alpert jcc and the. Director rolf schubel country germany year 1999 duration 114 min. A hit song during the 1930s, recorded most famously by billie holiday, the evocative gloomy sunday was notorious for allegedly driving people to suicide. Czech republic 12 march 2001 european union film festival usa 29 october 2001 coachella valley festival of festivals hong kong 10 march 2002 hong kong jewish film festival france 4 april 2002 tv premiere. Exquisite, powerful and haunting, gloomy sunday follows three men who fall in love with the same woman before wwii.