The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music (film) The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Filmballad of Mamadada", an experimental biopic on the Baroness. The story of The Baroness' life was told through contributions from over 50 artists and filmmakers. The film premiered at Copenhagen International Documentary Festival and was described as a, "playful and chaotic experiment that posits a return to a grand collective narrative via the postqueer populism of YouTube and crowdsourcing," by Art Forum. The novel "Holy Skirts", by Rene Steinke, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award, is based on the life of Freytag-Loringhoven. "Holy Skirts" comes from the title of a poem by Elsa. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Hildegard