Wiener Mädeln (1945)

Viennese Girls

 

Directed by: Willi Forst

Written by: Franz Gribitz, Erich Meder and Willi Forst

Produced by: Willi Forst

Cinematography: Viktor Meihsl, Jan Stallich and Hannes Staudinger

Edited by: Hermann Leitner, Josefine Ramerstorfer and Hans Wolff

Music by: Karl Pauspertl and Willy Schmidt-Gentner

Production company: Wien-Film

Distributed by: Sascha-Film (Austria)

Sovexport (E. Germany)

Release date:  19 August 1949 (E. Germany)

Running time: 109 minutes

Country: The German Reich

Language: German

 

Starring:

 

Willi Forst: Carl Michael Ziehrer

Anton Edthofer: Hofrat Munk

Judith Holzmeister: Klara, his daughter

Dora Komar: Mitzi

Vera Schmid: Liesl

Filde Föda: Gretl, her daughter

Hans Moser: Engelbert

Edmund Schellhammer: Johann Strauss

Friedl Haerlin: Mrs. Strauß

Leopold Hainisch: Karl Haslinger

Lizzi Holzschuh: Mrs. Haslinger

Hansi Stork: Fürstin Pauline Metternich

Curd Jürgens: Count Lechenberg

Ferdinand Mayerhofer: Ziehrer sen.

Fred Liewehr: John Cross

Alfred Neugebauer: exposition director

André Mattoni: his secretary

Hedwig Bleibtreu: Lisi

Fritz Imhoff: Paradeiser

Max Gülstorff: theatre director

Hilde Konetzni: singer

 

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.