Viennese Girls

1949 film

Viennese Girls

Austrian film poster

German| Wiener Mädeln
Directed by| Willi Forst
Written by| Franz Gribitz
Erich Meder
Willi Forst
Produced by| Willi Forst
Starring| Willi Forst
Anton Edthofer
Judith Holzmeister
Dora Komar
Cinematography| Viktor Meihsl
Jan Stallich
Hannes Staudinger
Edited by| Hermann Leitner
Josefine Ramerstorfer
Hans Wolff
Music by| Karl Pauspertl
Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Production
company

Wien-Film

Distributed by| Sascha-Film (Austria)
Sovexport (E.Germany)

Release date

* 19 August 1949 (1949-08-19)

(E. Germany)

Running time

| 109 minutes
Country| Austria (Part of Greater Germany)
Language| German

Viennese Girls (German: Wiener Mädeln) is a 1945 historical musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Forst, Anton Edthofer and Judith Holzmeister. The film was made by Wien-Film, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938 Anschluss. It was the third film in Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" which also included Operetta (1940) and Vienna Blood (1942). The film was finished in 1945, during the closing days of the Second World War. This led to severe delays in its release, which eventually took place in 1949 in two separate versions. One was released by the Soviet-backed Sovexport in the Eastern Bloc and the other by Forst.[1]

## Plot

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The composer Carl Michael Ziehrer produces twenty two operettas during his career, although he is overshadowed by the more successful Strauss Family (Johann Strauss I and his son Johann Strauss II).

## Cast

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* Willi Forst as Carl Michael Ziehrer
* Anton Edthofer as Hofrat Munk
* Judith Holzmeister as Klara, his daughter
* Dora Komar as Mitzi
* Vera Schmid as Liesl
* Hilde Föda as Gretl, her daughter
* Hans Moser as Engelbert
* Edmund Schellhammer as Johann Strauss
* Friedl Haerlin as Mrs. Strauß
* Leopold Hainisch as Karl Haslinger
* Lizzi Holzschuh as Mrs. Haslinger
* Hansi Stork as Fürstin Pauline Metternich
* Curd Jürgens as Count Lechenberg
* Ferdinand Mayerhofer as Ziehrer sen.
* Fred Liewehr as John Cross
* Alfred Neugebauer as exposition director
* André Mattoni as his secretary
* Hedwig Bleibtreu as Lisi
* Fritz Imhoff as Paradeiser
* Max Gülstorff as theatre director
* Hilde Konetzni as singer
* Erik Frey
* Pepi Glöckner-Kramer
* Harry Hardt
* Victor Janson
* Peter Norman as Singer
* Fritz Odemar
* Oscar Sabo
* Jakob Tiedtke
* Egon von Jordan
* Lina Woiwode
* Ernst Schiffner

## See also

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* Überläufer

## References

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1. ^ Hake, Sabine (2001). Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. pp. 167–168. doi:10.7560/734579. ISBN 0292734581. JSTOR 10.7560/734579.

## External links

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* Viennese Girls at IMDb
* Wiener Mädeln Full movie with English subtitles at Deutsche Filmothek

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Willi Forst filmography

* Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)
* Maskerade (1934)
* Unfinished Symphony (1934)
* Mazurka (1935)
* Court Theatre (1936)
* Tomfoolery (1936)
* Serenade (1937)
* I Am Sebastian Ott (1939)
* Bel Ami (1939)
* Operetta (1940)
* Vienna Blood (1942)
* Women Are No Angels (1943)
* Viennese Girls (1945)
* Miracles Still Happen (1951)
* The Sinner (1951)
* The White Horse Inn (1952)
* Cabaret (1954)
* The Road to Paradise (1956)
* Kaiserjäger (1956)
* The Unexcused Hour (1957)
* Vienna, City of My Dreams (1957)

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