Viennese Girls

{{Short description|1949 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = Viennese Girls |image = Viennese Girls.jpg |caption = Austrian film poster |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Wiener Mädeln}} |director = Willi Forst |producer = Willi Forst |writer = Franz Gribitz Erich Meder Willi Forst |starring = Willi Forst Anton Edthofer Judith Holzmeister Dora Komar |music = Karl Pauspertl Willy Schmidt-Gentner |cinematography = Viktor Meihsl Jan Stallich Hannes Staudinger |editing = Hermann Leitner Josefine Ramerstorfer Hans Wolff |studio = Wien-Film |distributor = Sascha-Film (Austria) Sovexport (E.Germany) |released = {{Film date|1949|8|19|df=yes}} (E. Germany) |runtime = 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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hake|first=Sabine|title=Popular Cinema of the Third Reich|publisher=University of Texas Press|location=Austin, TX|year=2001|pages=167–168|doi=10.7560/734579|isbn=0292734581|jstor=10.7560/734579}}</ref>

==Plot== 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== {{Cast listing| *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== *Überläufer

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0042043}} *[https://archive.org/details/1945WienerMaedeln24pForst ''Wiener Mädeln''] Full movie with English subtitles at Deutsche Filmothek

Category:Films of Nazi Germany Category:East German films Category:German biographical films Category:Austrian biographical films Category:1949 biographical films Category:Operetta films Category:Films set in Vienna Category:Films set in the 19th century Category:Films directed by Willi Forst Category:Films about classical music and musicians Category:Films about composers Category:Wiener Film Category:Cultural depictions of Johann Strauss II Category:Austrian historical musical films Category:German historical musical films Category:1940s historical musical films Category:1949 German-language films Category:Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner Category:German-language historical musical films Category:German-language biographical films Category:1940s color films Category:1949 Austrian films