The Virtuous Sinner (German: Der brave Sünder) is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Fritz Kortner and starring Max Pallenberg, Heinz Rühmann and Dolly Haas.

The film was made at the Babelsberg Studio in Berlin, although its setting and many of its principal participants were Austrian.

He was finally convinced by the producer Arnold Pressburger to try and film one of his stage successes.

[3] The film also offered Kortner a chance to fulfill his ambitions to become a director.

Pichler and Wittek, two junior employees of a bank from a provincial Austrian town, travel to Vienna, where they become accidentally embroiled in their director's scheme to embezzle the bank's funds and flee with his mistress.