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, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The films screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musicals book by Lindsay and Crouse. The story is based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp).

The plot of the film revolves around a young Austrian postulant named Maria, who in 1938 is sent to the home of a retired naval officer and widower, Captain von Trapp, to be the governess to his seven children. Maria brings music and joy back into the household, and she and the Captain fall in love and get married. However, the family is forced to flee Austria when the Nazis take over the country).