Hungarian Rhapsody (German: Ungarische Rhapsodie) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Lil Dagover, Willy Fritsch and Dita Parlo.^[1] It depicts the life of an impoverished Hungarian aristocrat.

It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Potsdam and on location in Southern Hungary. Premiering at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo, it was one of the most popular German films released that year.^[2] In 1929, a sound version was prepared by Paramount Pictures due to the public's apathy to silent films. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process. Since the sound version was more widely seen, UFA producer Erich Pommer describe this film as his first "sound film", rather than Melody of the Heart.^[3]

The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Kettelhut.

• Lil Dagover as Camilla
• Willy Fritsch as Franz Leutnant Graf v. Turoczy
• Dita Parlo as Marika
• Fritz Greiner as Gutsverwalter Doczy - ihr Vater
• Gisela Bathory as Frau Doczy - ihre Mutter
• Erich Kaiser-Titz as General Hoffmann
• Leopold Kramer as Baron Barsody
• Andor Heltai as Ein Zigeunerprimas
• Harry Hardt as Oberleutnant Barany
• Osvaldo Valenti as Der Fähnrich
• Paul Hörbiger as Kellner
• Max Wogritsch as Bischof

The sound version featured a theme song entitled “Marika” by Allan Stuart (words) and William Peters (music).

• List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)

• Hardt, Ursula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

• Hungarian Rhapsody at IMDb