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The Sound of Music
UNITED STATES · 1965

The Sound of Music

Robert Wise
family bonding music and performing arts wartime escape Austrian culture coming of age
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Synopsis

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

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