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. 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. 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 of 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 See also List of submissions to the 31st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film References External links Guld og grønne skove at the Danish National Filmography 1958 films 1950s Danish-language films 1958 romantic comedy films Films directed by Gabriel Axel Danish romantic comedy films