22-year-old Maria (Julie Andrews) is a volunteer nun in a Salzburg convent. However, her lively and nature-loving personality always got her into trouble at the convent. Mother Abbess (played by Peggy Wood) in the nunnery feels that her lively personality is not suitable for monk life.

So, when she received a request from Colonel von Trapp (Christopher Plummer) for care, she decided to let Maria go, allowing her to explore her true purpose in life. .

Maria arrives at von Trapp's house and discovers that he is a widower with seven children. Long-term naval life and grief for his deceased wife made him treat his children as strictly as he disciplined soldiers.

Soon, Maria understood the reason why the previous caregivers left. It turned out that the children could not get the love from their father and always used to tease the caregivers to attract their father's attention. The colonel asked Maria to be as strict as him, but Maria did not obey. Instead, she won the friendship of the children with her natural gentleness and kindness.

While the colonel was away, she used curtains to make game costumes for each child, took them to the market, had a picnic in the beautiful Alps, and taught them to sing. The children's original restraint and melancholy were gradually replaced by music and laughter. Soon the colonel returned home, bringing back Uncle Mike, whom the children liked, and his girlfriend, the Baroness (Ellenor Parker), whom the children did not like very much.

The colonel was very dissatisfied with Maria's actions, but he was very moved when he heard the children singing for the Baroness, because Maria brought back the music that had been no longer in the family since his wife died. Maria also prepared a puppet show with the children, and the colonel was attracted by Maria's enthusiasm that could be contagious to others.

A few days later, the colonel and the baroness held a grand ball together, in which the children also sang. During the dance, Maria demonstrated the Austrian folk dance "Laendler" to the children. Unexpectedly, the colonel came over and danced with Maria. At the end of the dance, they looked at each other, and the love between them was clear at a glance.

All this was seen by the Baroness. That night, she persuaded Maria to return to the monastery. Maria was afraid that her feelings for the colonel would exceed the limit, so she left quietly.

After Maria left, the Baroness tried her best to please the children, but to no avail. When the children learned that the colonel was going to marry the baroness, they were even more sad. They went to the convent to find Maria but could not see her.

Maria confessed her love for the colonel and her confusion about life to Dean Abys. Dean Abys told her to have courage and courage, even if she climbs every mountain in the world. To find your true love.

So Maria returned to von Trapp’s house. After Maria came back, the Baroness found that her relationship with the Colonel could no longer be restored, so she took the initiative to withdraw from the engagement. The Colonel and Maria exchanged their feelings, and soon they got married.

Extended information

Character introduction

1. Maria

Actor Julie Andrews

A volunteer nun in the Salzburg monastery, her lively and nature-loving character always got her into trouble in the monastery. So she was sent to Colonel von Trapp's house as a tutor. She quickly became involved with the colonel's seven children, and the colonel gradually changed his attitude towards the children under her guidance.

2. Von Trapp

Actor Christopher Plummer

Navy Captain, father of seven children. Long-term naval life and the grief of his deceased wife made him treat his children as strictly as he disciplined soldiers. He invited Maria as his child's tutor. At first he was very dissatisfied with Maria's approach, but when he heard the children singing for the Baroness, he was very moved and was attracted by Maria's enthusiasm that could infect others.

3. Baroness

Actor Eleanor Parker

Colonel von Trapp’s girlfriend, the children were very upset when the colonel brought him back Like her. Seeing that Maria was very close to the colonel, she persuaded Maria to return to the convent. But later, when Maria came back, she found that she could no longer restore the relationship between her and the colonel, so she voluntarily quit her engagement with the colonel.

4. Abbot Abis

Actor Peggy Wood

The abbot of Salzburg monastery, she felt that Maria’s lively personality was not suitable for monks Life. So when she received a request for care from Colonel von Trapp's family, she decided to let Maria go, thereby allowing Maria to explore the true purpose of life.

When Maria confessed to her her love for the colonel and her confusion about life, she told Maria that she must have backbone and courage, even if she climbs every mountain in the world, she must find her own love. true love.

Filming Highlights

Director Robert Wise's best candidate to play Colonel von Trapp was Yul Brynner. However, Yul Brynner declined the offer, and the role was ultimately cast by Christopher Plummer.

Due to the relatively long filming period, the young actors have grown a lot in the process. In order to keep the actors' heights unchanged in the shot, the filming team used a lot of small ones. Photography skills to cover it all up.

At the end of the film, when the family climbs up the mountain, the person on the colonel’s shoulder who sees Grite is not herself. Kim Karas gained a lot of weight at the time. The child who appears in the film is a dwarf substitute found at Christopher's request, weighing only half of Griet.

The film's first musical sequence, "The Sound of Music," was the last scene shot in Europe. It was late June and early July in 1964. Although it looked sunny, the weather was bitingly cold, and Julie Andrews had to keep jumping up and down in the mountains.

In the opening aerial shot of the film, even though Julie Andrews dug her heels into the ground and tried to steady herself, she was still knocked off her feet by the strong airflow of the helicopter again and again. Neither could stand firm. After taking about a dozen shots, she tried to gesture to director Robert Wise to ask the helicopter to rise higher, but the response she got was a thumbs up from the director, because the director finally got a satisfactory shot.

At the end of the film, the family walked across the Alps to Switzerland. In reality, they first took a train to Italy, then flew from Italy to London, and finally arrived in the United States. Salzburg is very close to the Austrian-German border, but very far from Switzerland and Italy. It is impossible to walk there.

Andrews laughed all the way through the scene with Maria and the Colonel on the terrace. Because every time she and the colonel kissed, there was a device that made a smacking sound. After more than 20 takes, the scene's ending was altered to show the silhouette of the two men, and to hide Andrews' laughter.

When filming the scene where they fell from the boat into the water, the actors had to be repeatedly doused with water from a tap in order to stay wet.

Nicholas Hammond has brown hair, so he had to dye his hair painfully many times before and during the filming of the film to bleach it blonde.

Debbie Turner, who plays Matt, was having her teeth replaced during the filming of the film. Whenever she lost a tooth, the makeup artist would replace it with dentures.

When filming the wedding scene between Colonel von Trapp and Maria, the crew forgot to call the actor playing the bishop to take his place. When the two protagonists walked to the altar, it was empty. Alone, very embarrassed. The real bishop of Salzburg also played a small role in the film.