The Girls Are Willing (Danish: Guld og grønne skove) is a 1958 Danish comedy film directed by Gabriel Axel. It was chosen as Denmark's official submission to the 31st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. It was also entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
Guld og grønne skove was only Gabriel Axel's third feature film as a director, and from the time it came out in 1958, it took exactly 30 years until in 1988 he won his Academy Award for Babette's Feast.
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Plot
The two small islands, Hvenø and Birkø, have been in a decade-long conflict, and it therefore creates big problems when three young men from one island falls in love with three beautiful, young girls from the neighbouring island. Nothing could be more unlikely than a marriage between the islands, let alone three! But one day oil is found on the first island, causing a veritable invasion by the US oil company American Super Oil Company, and then the whole little sleepy community is turned completely upside down.
Cast
Axel Bang - Sognerådsformand Kristian Kristiansen
Henny Lindorff Buckhøj - Martha
Verner Tholsgaard - Theo
Ole Larsen - Postmester Lars Peter
Else-Marie - Thyra
Mogens Viggo Petersen - Ole
Valsø Holm - Købmand Anton
Cay Kristiansen - Hans
Anna Henriques-Nielsen - Jensine
Vilhelm Henriques - Organist Mattis
Einar Reim - Pastor Breining
Keld Markuslund - Skolelærer
Karl Stegger - Sognefoged Søren
Hanne Winther-Jørgensen - Rigmor
Judy Gringer - Anna