Fifty years on, Salzburg still alive with the Sound of Music With its catchy tunes and lovable characters, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, has charmed movie-lovers for almost 50 years. And it has been a boon for tourism in the Austrian city of Salzburg, where the singing von Trapp family lived and where the 1965 movie was filmed. A natural sound version of an AFPTV report.