''Hungarian Rhapsody'' (german: Ungarische Rhapsodie, link=no) is a 1954 French-German
historical
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musical film
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directed by
Peter Berneis and
André Haguet
André Haguet (1900–1973) was a French screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933)
* ''The Faceless Voice'' (1933)
* '' Mandrin'' (1947)
* ''Dark Sunday'' (1948)
* '' The Passenger'' (1949)
* ''At the Order of the Czar'' (1 ...
and starring
Colette Marchand
Colette Janine Marchand (29 April 1925 – 5 June 2015) was a French prima ballerina and actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her performance as Marie Charlet in ''Moulin Rouge'', directed by ...
,
Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...
and
Michel Simon
Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss-French actor. He appeared in many notable French films, including ''La Chienne'' (1931), ''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (1932), ''L'Atalante'' (1934), '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' The H ...
.
[Bock & Bergfelder, p. 134]
Shooting took place at the
Victorine Studios
Victorine Studios (French: Studios de la Victorine) are a film studio in the French city of Nice. They are also known as the Nice Studios. Several small studios have also existed in the city.
Originally built in 1921 in an attempt to create a H ...
in
Nice
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and
on location in Paris and the
French Riviera
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. A separate French-language version ''
At the Order of the Czar
''At the Order of the Czar'' (French: ''Par ordre du tsar'') is a 1954 French-West German historical drama film directed by André Haguet and starring Michel Simon, Colette Marchand and Jacques François.Mitchell, p. 107 A separate German-languag ...
'' was also made.
Cast
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Colette Marchand
Colette Janine Marchand (29 April 1925 – 5 June 2015) was a French prima ballerina and actress. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her performance as Marie Charlet in ''Moulin Rouge'', directed by ...
as
Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (8 February 18199 March 1887) was a Polish noblewoman (''szlachcianka'') who is best known for her 40-year relationship with musician Franz Liszt. She was also an amateur journalist and essayist. It is co ...
*
Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...
as
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...
*
Michel Simon
Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss-French actor. He appeared in many notable French films, including ''La Chienne'' (1931), ''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (1932), ''L'Atalante'' (1934), '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' The H ...
as General von Sayn-Wittgenstein
*
Willy Fritsch
Willy Fritsch (27 January 1901 – 13 July 1973) was a German theater and film actor, a popular leading man and character actor from the silent-film era to the early 1960s.
Biography Early life
He was born Wilhelm Egon Fritz Fritsch, the only s ...
as Großherzog
* as
Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...
*
Margot Leonard as Wanda
*
Yves Brainville
Yves Brainville (8 March 1914 – 16 November 1993) was a French film and television actor.Hayward p.245
Selected filmography
* ''Entrée des artistes'' (1938) - Sylvestre
* ''Accord final'' (1938) - Chenal - l'ami de Georges
* ''Eduardo VII'' ...
as Dingelstedt
*
Jacqueline Gay as Nathalie
*
Lucienne Legrand as
Maria Pawlowna
References
Bibliography
*
Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. ''The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links
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1954 films
French biographical films
French historical musical films
West German films
German historical musical films
German biographical films
1950s biographical films
1950s historical musical films
1950s German-language films
Films set in the 1840s
Films set in the 1850s
Films set in the 1860s
Cultural depictions of Franz Liszt
Biographical films about musicians
Films about classical music and musicians
Films about composers
German multilingual films
French multilingual films
1950s multilingual films
Films directed by André Haguet
Films shot at Victorine Studios
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