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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 revenge, did not bode well.