Dark Sunday | |
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Directed by | Jacqueline Audry |
Written by | André Haguet Pierre Laroche André Legrand |
Produced by | Claude Dolbert |
Starring | Michèle Alfa Paul Bernard Marcelle Derrien |
Cinematography | Gérard Perrin |
Edited by | Pierre Delannoy |
Music by | Marcel Landowski |
Production company | Codo Cinema |
Distributed by | Selb Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Dark Sunday (French: Sombre dimanche) is a 1948 French drama film directed by Jacqueline Audry and starring Michèle Alfa, Paul Bernard and Marcelle Derrien.[1] The film takes its name from the French title of the song "Gloomy Sunday".
The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Druart.
In pre-war France, a Hungarian immigrant musician is left so saddened when he is rejected by the woman he loves that he writes an incredibly gloomy piece of music. A music publisher is impressed with it and decides to promote using a marketing gimmick. He will get a woman to pretend to attempt suicide because she is so moved by the song.