Forest Liesel

StarringCinematographySepp RiffEdited byBrigitte FredersdorfMusic byHans HagenDistributed byUnion-Film88 minutesCountryWest GermanyLanguageGerman

Forest Liesel (German: Försterliesel) is a 1956 West German comedy drama film directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf and starring Anita Gutwell, Rudolf Lenz and Lotte Ledl. It is part of the post-war group of rural-set heimatfilm.^[1] The film was made in Agfacolor. The film's sets were designed by Wolf Witzemann. It was shot on location in the Austrian Tyrol. It is a follow-up by Fredersdorf to the previous financial success of The Milkmaid of St. Kathrein (1955).

• Anita Gutwell as Försterliesel
• Rudolf Lenz as Tony, der junge Jäger
• Lotte Ledl as Zenzi, die Magd
• Rudolf Carl as Zwutschenthaler
• Eva Maria Meineke as Carola
• Erik Frey as Robert Burgert
• Hardo Hesse as Bartl
• Harry Kratz as Heinzl, Liesels Vetter
• Fritz Muliar as Schneider
• Ferry Wondra as Loisl
• Ernst Pröckl
• Walter Stummvoll as Der alte Förster Bregler
• Monika Glieber
• Anton Geiger

• Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity. Berghahn Books, 2013.

• Forest Liesel at IMDb