To ostatnia niedziela (Polish: The Last Sunday; 1935) is one of the long-time hits of Jerzy Petersburski. A nostalgic tango with lyrics by Zenon Friedwald describing the final meeting of former lovers just before they break up,^[1] it was performed by numerous artists and gained the nickname of Suicide Tango, due to its brooding lyrical content.

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In 1937, a Russian version was written by Iosif Alvek [ru] and performed by singer Pavel Mikhailov [ru] backed by the State Radio Committee Jazz Band, led by pianist Aleksandr Tsfasman, under the title of Wearied Sun (Russian: Утомлённое солнце, Utomlyonnoye solntse).^[2] After the war the song remained largely successful and was one of the symbols of pre-war music in Polish popular culture. Performed by, among others, Mieczysław Fogg and Piotr Fronczewski, it appeared in a number of films, including:

• Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's Siberiade (1979),
• Yuri Norstein's acclaimed Tale of Tales of the same year,
• The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (1990) directed by Efraim Sevela,
• Schindler's List (1993),
• Krzysztof Kieślowski's award-winning Three Colors: White (1994),
• Nikita Mikhalkov's Burnt by the Sun (1994)

There exists a famous contemporary recording of the [violinist Gidon Kremer.

Also the Ukrainian version written by Volodymyr Knyr [uk] exists.

A pop-rock version was used for the trailer of Atomic Heart.