“A big success in its day, though not quite duplicating the popularity of Schwartz's The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna, Hungarian Rhapsody--an Erich Pommer production--is clearly influenced in a stylistic sense by Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil (with Greta Garbo, 1927). Somewhat plodding dramatically (though it springs to physical life in the spirited rendering of sundry mazurkas and other dances, cut in the frenzied Soviet fashion), its story does take second place to the visuals. In original 35mm prints it must have been a stunning film to watch; alas, the only available print today is a trifle lack-lustre and doesn't do the erotic and romantic quality of the camerawork anywhere near full justice. Lil Dagover is superb as the femme fatale, Willi Fritsch strangely (and unusually) appealing as the hero, and that sensitive actress Dita Parlo somewhat wasted in a role that contrives to have her look as much as possible like Jobyna Ralston, a lovely but rather bland Hollywood ingenue of the period.” William K. Everson