''Viennese Girls'' (German: ''Wiener Mädeln'') is a 1945

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directed by

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and starring Forst,

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and Judith Holzmeister. The film was made by

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, a Vienna-based company set up after Austria had been incorporated into Greater Germany following the 1938

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. It was the third film in Forst's "Viennese Trilogy" which also included ''

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'' (1940) and '' Vienna Blood'' (1942). The film was finished in 1945, during the closing days of the

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. 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

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and the other by Forst.

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The composer

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produces twenty two

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during his career, although he is overshadowed by the more successful Strauss Family (

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and his son

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