| The Girls Are Willing | |
| Director: | Gabriel Axel |
| Producer: | S. Vinod Pathak |
| Starring: | Axel Bang |
| Music: | Svend Erik Tarp |
| Cinematography: | Jørgen Skov |
| Editing: | Carsten Dahl |
| Distributor: | Nordisk Films Kompagni |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | Denmark |
| Language: | Danish |
The Girls Are Willing 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.[1] 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 it came out in 1958, it took exactly 30 years before in 1988 he won his Academy Award for Babette's Feast.[2]
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 of the US oil company, American Super Oil Company. And then the whole little sleepy community is turned completely upside down ...