Viennese Girls (1949)

Original title

Wiener Mädeln

Directed by

Willi Forst

Genre

musical film

Country

Germany, Austria

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows the lives and loves of young people in old Vienna, focusing on a composer and his muse. It shows their romance and artistic struggles against the backdrop of a fading era.

nostalgicsentimentalbittersweetreflectiveelegiacromanticcharming

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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