Matthew Macfadyen - "The Von Trapp Family – A Life of Music" Heading to the Screen This Christmas

PLAYBILL
By Adam Hetrick
04 Jun 2015



"The von Trapp Family – A Life of Music," a new film from Dutch filmmaker Ben Verbong based on Agathe von Trapp's autobiography, promises to tell the story behind the Sound of Music legend.

Currently shooting on location in Salzburg and Bavaria, the new film stars Eliza Bennett, Matthew Macfadyen and Tony Award winner Rosemary Harris. The film is expected to arrive in theatres this Christmas.

Lionsgate acquired U.S., Canada and U.K. rights on the film. Christoph Silber and Tim Sullivan penned the screenplay based on Agathe von Trapp's "Memories Before and After The Sound of Music."

Here's how the film is billed: "'The von Trapp Family – A Life of Music,' tells the fascinating and exciting story of Agathe von Trapp (Eliza Bennett), who has been searching for her path in life since her youth: She is the eldest daughter among many siblings, and her relationship with her father, the distinguished marine officer Georg von Trapp (Matthew Macfadyen) and his second wife Maria von Trapp (Yvonne Catterfeld), is often difficult. She develops her beautiful voice and stimulating musical talent together with her family and with the support of the famous singer Lotte Lehmann (opera singer Annette Dasch). She constantly struggles for the love of her childhood sweetheart Sigi (Johannes Nussbaum) and, not least, she must confront the menacing rise of fascism in Germany and Austria. Emigration to the U.S. finally brings a decisive step toward freedom and world success.




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Kate Winslet, Christopher Plummer Win at Golden Globes (Big Pond News)

Christopher Plummer has won the supporting actor Golden Globe for his role as an elderly widower who comes out as gay in the father-son drama Beginners.

Among early television winners were Kate Winslet as best actress in a miniseries or movie in Mildred Pierce, Laura Dern for comedy or musical actress in Enlightened, Kelsey Grammer for dramatic actor in Boss, Homeland for drama series and Downton Abbey for miniseries or movie.

Ricky Gervais, who has ruffled feathers at past shows with sharp wisecracks aimed at Hollywood's elite and the Globes show itself, returned as host for the third straight year. He started with some slams at the Globes as Hollywood's second-biggest film ceremony, after the Oscars.

Gervais joked that the Globes 'are just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem. The Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. A bit louder, a bit trashier, a bit drunker and more easily bought. Allegedly. Nothing's been proved.'

He also needled early winners, saying the show was running long and stars needed to keep their speeches short.

'You don't need to thank everyone you've ever met or members of your family, who have done nothing,' Gervais said. 'Just the main two. Your agent and God.'

Claiming the first prize of the night at Sunday's Globes may give 82-year-old Plummer the inside track for the same prize at next month's Academy Awards.

'I must praise my distinguished competitors, who whom I have the greatest admiration and to whom I apologise most profusely,' said Plummer, who added warm regards to Beginners star Scottish actor Ewan McGregor.

'I want to salute my partner, Ewan, that wily Scot, Ewan 'My Heart's in the Highlands' McGregor, that scene-stealing swine from the outer Hebrides.'

Oscar consideration has been elusive for Plummer, who has been nominated for Hollywood's top honour only once in his 60-year career - two years ago, for the Leo Tolstoy drama The Last Station.

Plummer is regarded as one of the finest Shakespearean stage actors of the last half century.

His film roles range from Austrian widower Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Tolstoy in The Last Station to newsman Mike Wallace in The Insider and a treacherous Klingon general in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country.

He also co-starred in the current thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

A drama with comic touches, Beginners was a fitting recipient to start the Globe ceremony, which has a strong line-up of lighter fare to match the more sober-minded films that generally dominate Hollywood awards.



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