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It's hilarious that apparantly many people (in the US) think “Edelweiss“ is the national anthem of Austria. In fact, “the sound of music“ is virtually unknown h
by spacechild1 6y ago
It's hilarious that apparantly many people (in the US) think “Edelweiss“ is the national anthem of Austria. In fact, “the sound of music“ is virtually unknown here. The German wikipedia mentions that Ronald Reagan held this misconception when visiting Austria, confusing everybody including the Austrian president by quoting lyrics from the song
- detaro 6y ago"the sound of music" seems fairly well known in the UK too. At least as far as I remember, all references to it I've seen have been in UK media. (I'm German)
- yesenadam 6y agoI think it was huge everywhere. The movie is #6 on the list of biggest grossing movies of all time, adjusted for inflation. For 6 years it held the record as the highest grossing movie ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films_adjusted_for_inflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Timeline_of_highest-grossing_films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...