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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Deborah Cole in Salzburg

‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

A shot from The Sound of Music, with Julie Andrews singing with the von Trapp children
‘A few of my favourite things’: The Sound of Music was not a big hit in Salzburg, where the film is set. Photograph: GRANGER/Historical Picture Archive/Alamy

Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.

Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music.

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