The Trapp Family - a Life of Music

According to this story, Matthew is involved in a new project .  The film will be about the famous singing Von Trapp family made famous in The Sound of Music.  Below is what we know:

• Matthew Macfadyen will play Georg Von Trapp
• The oldest daughter, Agathe von Trapp (played by Vanessa Redgrave) tells the Von Trapp story from the death of his first wife and the meeting with Maria in flashbacks caused by something happening in the present time
• At first the movie will only come out in Germany and Austria, but the article also says that an American company has made an offer to distribute the movie worldwide
• Filming begins next Thursday

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