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The Sound of Music

On the 50th anniversary of the film the Sound of Music, the youngest of the Von Trapp children, on whose life the film is based, tells us what it has meant to him and his family.

One of the most successful films of all time, The Sound of Music, was released 50 years ago. The film was based on the true story of the von Trapp family. But was their life really as it was portrayed in the movie? Maria von Trapp's youngest child, Johannes, talks to WItness.

(Photograph: The Trapp Family Singers, whose story inspired the film The Sound of Music, in Salzburg in 1937. Credit: BBC Photo Archives)

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Mon 2 Mar 2015 08:50GMT
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