Filed electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 19, 2012

File No. 002-14400

File No. 811-00642

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Pre-Effective Amendment No.

           Post-Effective Amendment No. 132                                      |X|

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

Amendment No. 112                                                   |X|

DWS International Fund, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

345 Park Avenue, New York, NY             10154

   (Address of Principal Executive Offices)     (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code:  (617) 295-1000

John Millette

One Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copy to:

Thomas Hiller, Esq.

Ropes & Gray

Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street

Boston, MA 02199-3600

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):

|X|	Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
|__|	On ______________ pursuant to paragraph (b)
|__|	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
|__|	On ______________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
|__|	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
|__|	On ______________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485
	If appropriate, check the following box:
|__|	This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This filing relates solely to the following Funds, each a series of the Registrant:

·   DWS International Fund — Class A, Class B, Class C, Institutional Class and Class S

·   DWS Dreman International Value Fund — Class A, Class C, Institutional Class and Class S

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized, in the City of New York and the State of New York on the 15th day of December 2012.

           DWS INTERNATIONAL FUND, INC.

By:  /s/ W. Douglas Beck

        W. Douglas Beck*

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to its Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

SIGNATURE		TITLE	DATE
/s/W. Douglas Beck
W. Douglas Beck*	President			December 15, 2012
/s/Paul H. Schubert
Paul H. Schubert	Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer			December 15, 2012
/s/John W. Ballantine
John W. Ballantine*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Henry P. Becton, Jr.
Henry P. Becton, Jr.*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Dawn-Marie Driscoll
Dawn-Marie Driscoll*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Keith R. Fox
Keith R. Fox*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Paul K. Freeman
Paul K. Freeman*	Chairperson and Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Kenneth C. Froewiss
Kenneth C. Froewiss*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Richard J. Herring
Richard J. Herring*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/William McClayton
William McClayton*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Rebecca W. Rimel
Rebecca W. Rimel*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/William N. Searcy, Jr.
William N. Searcy, Jr.*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Jean Gleason Stromberg
Jean Gleason Stromberg*	Director			December 15, 2012
/s/Robert H. Wadsworth
Robert H. Wadsworth*	Director			December 15, 2012

*By:           

/s/Caroline Pearson

Caroline Pearson**

Chief Legal Officer

** Attorney-in-fact pursuant to the powers of attorney that are incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 125 to the Registration Statement, as filed on October 21, 2011; and as filed on December 1, 2008 in Post-Effective Amendment No. 113 to the Registration Statement.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Index No.	Description of Exhibit
EX-101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
EX-101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
EX-101.CAL	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
EX-101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
EX-101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
EX-101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase