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

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