Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (Gloomy Sunday AKA The Piano Player) Page #3

Year:
1999
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- Your health, gentlemen

- Cheers

Budapest...

That's Budapest...

Would you care for anything else?

Tell me...

what is that music?

Goes straight to the heart, doesn't it?

Our house pianist composed it himself

Really! Does the tune have a name?

It's called "Gloomy Sunday"

I take it you're closed on Sundays?

No, we're never closed

I'm Mr. Novak,

director of the Lindstroem Record Company

We'd be honored if you and the composer

would join us later for a glass of champagne

With pleasure

The fact remains: The composer and

the composition are unknown

We'll have to give the radio directors

something so the record gets played

That could be interpreted as bribery

It's only bribery if it's not enough

One could slip something

to someone at the radio station

But it would have to be deducted

from the composer's royalties

Half of it

Pardon?

Half from him

It's an investment, and investments

should be split honestly

Fair enough, that's do-able

Royalties are 6%% %

I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you

You said... 12%% %?

Twelve percent!?

Franz Lehar earns that much!

But with an operetta, you have to

pay singers, and the orchestra

If one of those 70 people gets a toothache,

you'd have to postpone the recording

Enough already... eight

Ten

Nine

And it has to say on the label that

"Gloomy Sunday" originated here

- That can be done

- If it fits!

Mr. Schwitz!

So we're agreed

Allow me to go get a very special bottle

of champagne vintage 1928

Permission granted

Mr. Torresz left his portfolio,

with a note

"The song was lovely

Thanks very much, I must go now"

Thanks are fine, paying is better

He was acting so oddly this evening

Excuse me, Mr. Szabo

You're so worldly,

I'm just a pianist...

Don't say things like "just"

A lot of artists have an impresario,

who gets 10%% % for their trouble

Would you be my manager, for 10%% %?

Please

Mr. Aradi, I can't charge a fee

for helping a friend, now can I?

Thank you, Mr. Szabo

Thank you

Good morning

Were you out celebrating

with the music publishers?

Just a liqueur

More than one, it looks like

Are you here to pick us up?

I wanted to ask you something

You and llona

The record will be made in Vienna

Would you like to come along?

You and llona?

Vienna!

Laszlo, let's go to Vienna!

- That's impossible

- Why?

- We'd have to close the restaurant

- Only for a day!

You could do itjust once, Mr. Szabo

Please... Let's go to Vienna

The three of us, For me

No, I won't close the restaurant

Not even for a day

There'd have to be a real reason

If the great Flood were coming, maybe

- That's Mr. Torresz!

- He hanged himself

The song was lovely

Thanks very much, I must go now

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