The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical book written by the writing team of Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse. Ernest Lehman wrote the screenplay.

In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her

attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain

Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle

his seven mischievous children,. The Captain's wife is

dead, and runs the household as strictly.

The children are resentful of the

governesses that their father keeps

hiring, she is initially met with the same

hostility

Maria’s kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to

her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he

and Maria find themselves falling in love .

The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made.

Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events.

Austria is about to come under the control of

Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself

drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country.

Maria had longed to be a nun since she was a young girl, yet when she became old

enough discovered that it wasn't at all what she thought. Von Trapp was widowed several

years & left to care for seven children. The children have run off countless

governesses. Maria soon learns that all these children need is a little love to

change their attitudes. Maria teaches the children to sing, music is brought back

into the hearts.

Baron Von Trapp, a widower, runs his home near Salzburg

like the ship he once commanded. That changes when Maria arrives from the

convent to be the new governess of his seven

children.

With a renewed zest for life, the baron hosts a party to introduce his new fiancé. Maria knows

then she does not want to be a nun. She marries the baron. The happy ever after part is

threatened when Austria's new German rulers want the baron back in military service.

Maria is a failure as a nun. The Mother Superior sends her off in answer to a letter from a retired

naval captain for a governess for his seven children. She goes to their

house and finds that she is the latest in a long line of governesses run off

by the children. She teaches the children to sing and that becomes their

bonding force, of course leading her to fall in love

with their father and marries him. As this is

happening Austria votes to be assumed by Germany on

the eve of World war II.

Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a

gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Marie shows the Von Trapp children

the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing.

Captain von Trapp's heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he

and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down

around them