Gloomy Sunday: Remembering the German movie that charmed a Kiwi city for a decade
QUADFLIX Debuting on April 12, 2001, Gloomy Sunday screened every day in one Christchurch cinema for almost a decade. LeAnn Rimes’ Can’t Fight the Moonlight topped the charts, Peter Jackson was shooting the first of his Lord of the Rings movies and New York's twin towers were still standing when Gloomy Sunday made its debut on Christchurch cinema screens on April 12, 2001. A less-than-appealing title (its subtitle, A Song of Love and Death, was even worse), poor returns in its native Germany (it lasted only two weeks) and a plot that includes Nazi brutality, beef roulade and bitter re...
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