Friday, 06. November 2020 // 3.30 – ca. 6.45 p.m. (including one break) |
From 12 years |
Passage Kinos |
(Free entry) |
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Feature film based on the musical of the same name
Featurefilm by Robert Wise from the musical of the same name
Screenplay: Ernest Lehman
Direction: Robert Wise
Music: Richard Rodgers
Song lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein
Camera: Ted D. McCord
Cast: Julie Andrews (Maria), Christopher Plummer (Captain von Trapp), Eleanor Parker (Baroness Elsa Schrader), among others
USA 1965 // Duration: 165 minutes
Production: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Los Angeles
In German language
Introduction: Ann-Elisabeth Wolff, Leipzig
A phenomenon: this film, with 1.2 billion (!) viewers one of the most watched films in history, is almost unknown in Germany. Robert Wise, most famous due to his screen adaptation of »West Side Story«, created »The sound of music«, based on the musical of the same name that premiered on Broadway in New York in 1959. The stage piece cites the true story of the family Trapp’s fate: they founded a successful chamber choir with their ten children and emigrated to the USA to escape the Nazis in 1938.
The novice Maria becomes the tutor for Captain Trapp’s children; he falls in love with her and they marry. The film is an enchanting homage to Austria, a high-class dance and music film. »The hills are alive« by Nikolaus Habjan and Neville Tranter was created on the basis of motifs from this film.