The Sound of Music (film)

Julie Andrews: Maria
Christopher Plummer: Captain Von Trapp
Eleanor Parker: Baroness
Richard Haydn: Max Detweiler
Peggy Wood: Mother Superior
Charmian Carr: Liesl
Heather Menzies - Urich: Louisa
Nicholas Hammond: Friedrich
Duane Chase: Kurt
Angela Cartwright: Brigitta
Debbie Turner: Marta
Kym Karath: Gretl
Anna Lee: Sister Margaretta
Portia Nelson: Sister Berthe
Ben Wright: Mr. Zeller
Daniel Truhitte: Rolfe
Norma Varden: Mrs. Schmidt
Gilchrist Stuart: Franz
Marni Nixon: Sister Sophia
Evadne Baker: Sister Bernice
Doris Lloyd: Baroness Ebberfeld

My songs - My Dreams ( Original title: The Sound of Music) is incurred on the basis of the musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein American feature film by director Robert Wise in 1965, the film was one of the world. most watched movies in film history and shapes, especially in the United States and Latin America, the image of Austria to this day.

Action

The plot is based on many true stories and plays in Salzburg in 1938.

The novice Maria is an avid singer and dancer and is sent by her mother superior to the widowed Captain von Trapp to take care of the brood. With their uncomplicated way it encourages the children to sing. Soon there is a close bond between the children and her. The strict captain sees the world do not like and are initially very reserved towards Mary, especially since he anbandelt with a baroness from Vienna, who can not stand the kids. However, Captain Von Trapp and Maria fall in love, and the music keeps reentering the home of Trapp. In the midst of the idyll it comes to the annexation of Austria to the German Reich and the Nazis call Captain von Trapp on to serve now the Wehrmacht. He refuses and is therefore persecuted by the Nazis. The film ends with the Von Trapp family in the Summer Riding School is a farewell concert and the Nazis escaped across the Swiss border.

Background

The real Maria, previously worked as an educator in Nonnberg, the captain already married in 1927 and lived until 1938 with him and his children in Salzburg. The family then fled but not over the mountains to Switzerland. From Salzburg to the south-west is via the lower mountain to the Berchtesgaden area, ie in the vicinity of Hitler's residence at Obersalzberg. The family arrived after letting her Salzburg property to a religious order with the train to Italy, and from there led the way to the USA.

In the house of the Von Trapp family, incidentally pulled a Heinrich Himmler and was there to set up a tap-proof room.

Effect and reception

The film reached about 1.2 billion viewers around the world. In the U.S. and other English speaking countries The Sound of Music was thanks to the film adaptation to one of the most popular musicals. The film itself was at ten nominations with five Oscar awards (except for the film music for film, directing, sound and editing ), Julie Andrews was awarded as best actress Golden Globe. The mid-seventies he came to a worldwide success story again in the cinema, and when it was first available on video cassette in the 1980s, he was selling like hot cakes.

Many tourists who have often seen many times this film, visit since then Salzburg and Mondsee ( where the wedding was filmed) want to hear the supposed Austrian national anthem Edelweiss and eat " schnitzel with noodles " and "crisp apple strudels " (because this is so in the song My Favorite Things occurs ). Also, the Landler shown in the film is not of traditional Austrian folk dance, but a compilation of various elements Landler. For fixed base, the Sound of Music tours, in which the international visitors to Salzburg will be driven to their former locations.

In Germany the film was first shown in a greatly abridged version, in which all payments were missing on National Socialism and the film ends with the wedding of Mary and not - as in the original version - with the flight of the Trapp family from Austria. Eventually, however, the American production studio procured that this third act of the film is also shown in the German version.

Despite the international success of the film in the German-speaking countries, was a commercial failure. Visitor numbers were meager, the bad reviews. He competed here with the successful home films The Trapp Family from 1956 and The Trapp Family in America by 1958. Too, because the film moved the repressed Nazi past in such harsh light, he found among German viewers former days no response. In Austria, which is so important for tourism film is at most known to the majority of the population from hearsay. Some Salzburg hotels offer an in-house television channel, on which the film can be seen in endless loop. Even the musical itself remained largely unknown. Only when the Vienna Volksoper in 2005 of the substance assumed it moved the culturally interested public a new awareness. In the same year the film was launched on DVD for the German market.

Lars von Trier's musical film Dancer in the Dark in 2000 refers to The Sound of Music: Its main character Selma rehearsing for the role of Maria. Gwen Stefani, lead singer of the U.S. band No Doubt and successful solo artist, built a section of a movie piece of music ( The Lonely Goatherd ) and a sample of Bläserfanfare in their song wind it up on the album The Sweet Escape ( 2007) - which begins with the lines: "High on the hills with the lonely goatherd - lay- od -lay - od -lay -he- hoo - Yodell back with the girl and goatherd - lay- od -lay - od- low". Thus, it alludes to a well-known scene of the film, in which Julie Andrews as the governess Maria with the Von Trapp children lists a puppet piece. Arundhati Roy weaves in a key scene of her novel The God of Small Things, a film screening of the film musical detail with the plot of the novel's action.

Actor and German votes

Julie Andrews: Marion Degler
Christopher Plummer: Michael Tellering
Charmian Carr: Herta Staal
Eleanor Parker: Edith Hieronimus
Richard Haydn: Michael Toost
Portia Nelson: Lola Luigi
Anna Lee: Dolores Schmidinger
Ben Wright: Curt Eilers
Peggy Wood: Vilma Degischer

DVD

For forty-year anniversary of the film version of a double DVD in December 2005 under the title The Sound of Music ( Subtitle: The Sound of Music - My Dreams ) published with extensive bonus material, through the Julie Andrews. As Fan the book The Sound of Music exists for the film with lots of background information.

Awards (selection)

2001: inclusion in the National Film Registry

Reviews

" A produced with immense external cost entertainment film photographed by impressive and arranged widescreen panoramas, beautiful ( in the original) songs and a remarkable actress captivates. At the border, however, is an embarrassment to the superficial treatment of the political background. The German rental shortened the film after the date of primary rigorously to eliminate all political elements, so that the film -friendly ' and consumable, was destroyed in its conception, of course. "- Lexicon of international film (CD -ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997

" [ ... ] One of cinema's greatest achievements, not only because of five Oscars. " ( Score: 3 stars = very good) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV " ( Extended edition ). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3, p 559-560

" A friendly, happy movie with beautiful and sometimes spends too much music. Despite some objections from 10 possible taste. "- Evangelical movie watchers, critics No. 211a/1966

The Film Review Board Wiesbaden gave the production value the predicate.

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