The Sound of Music  

One of the best desighned film, The Sparks did the cover for "Do Re Mi" in 1971

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As many of you may recall, this is the setting for the famous Disney classic The Sound of Music. While gazing over the mountains, you can almost hear Julie Andrews singing "The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Music."

There is, however, a cinematic representative of Austria that is internationally appreciated, but it is a collection of fictionalized images most Austrians have never seen. The Sound of Music, 5 the 1965 Hollywood film based on the Broadway musical by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and directed by Robert Wise,6 has consistently been one of the largest money-making films in history and one of the most popular with world audiences. Although honored with many film awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture, and having been hailed for its superb quality as an entertainment film, it has never been appreciated or taken seriously enough by film critics. The source of the original musical was the 1949 book The Story of the Trapp Family by Maria von Trapp,7 which also served as the basis for two West German features, Die Trapp-Familie (1956) and Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika (1958),8 both helmed by German/Austrian director Wolfgang Liebeneiener. The narrative structure of the first installment, scripted by Georg Hurdalek, appears to have influenced both the stage and film musical and Hurdalek''s name was later added post-release to the credits of the Robert Wise feature.

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