First: A lovely arrangement HarryLikas, and I love your playing and presentation, Sophia!
I saw the movie when it first came out in the cinema, and asked my parents to buy the music. I memorized all of it. The record had a scratch and I always hear that one song as "For somewhere in my youth / o-o-o-o-o-o-or childhood / I must have done something good." As a child I had the feelings that a child gets watching such a movie. You're not sophisticated about politics.
I watched the original "Die Trapp Familie" recently, and then watched a documentary. Even the Maria there is made too sweet and passive. The original Maria was feisty, headstrong, with a temper, and the Baron's calm manner kept the family in even keel. The "feelings of Bavarians" sort of puzzled me, since it's part of Germany (at one point it did want to separate), but since my grandmother was Bavarian maybe I can think about that. - When I watch the German version, the part where first the bank fails through the political upheavals, the world is turned upside down - this would hit home for the older generation who lived through this and for who it was still fresh in the 1950's. The American version is sort of frivolous and light for something that serious. I read that the movie is mostly unknown in Europe, maybe for that reason. My childhood experience with the movie still makes me fond of the original. Regarding stereotypes of the bad guys, in the German movie, the Nazi converts talk in dialect while everyone else speaks an impeccable high German. You have to differentiate good and bad guys somehow in movies; white and black hats wouldn't do.
The German version can be found on YT as "DIe Trapp Familie" (with subtitles), and there are a couple of fascinating documentaries on the actual family. While in the German movie, Maria sort of seems to think that maybe she's in love with the Baron; the actual Maria was obedient to God's order to marry and only learned to love him some years later, and she was fond of the children; (the children were not thrilled about it). She seemed a powerhouse for survival.
