Jan 15, 2026the sound of music, american musical film, released in 1965, that reigned for five years as the highest-grossing film in history. All about the real story, the movie production, the musical and the real filming locations in salzburg and austria. Rodgers and hammerstein's musical inspired this story of the governess who won the heart of the von trapp family and whose courage led them across the alps in their 1938 flight to freedom.
A sunny governess brings music, warmth and other favorite things to the seven children of a widowed naval officer as war looms over the austrian alps.