Hitler loved William Tell and incorporated some of Shiller's ... He also dropped roughly 60% of the characters from Schiller's play and completely rewrote all the remaining women, adding a few ...

So, the question remains: why? And it was this question that made me want to make the movie William Tell. To do that, I used an early 19th century play by the brilliant and underperformed playwright ...

Director Nick Hamm has rooted his story in the William Tell play by Friedrich von Schiller, who re-popularised Tell in the early 1800s, but he's added some modern flourishes. This Tell, played by Dane ...

Writer-director Nick Hamm based William Tell on Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama, itself the source of Rossini’s opera. After a sluggish opening, in which Tell (Claes Bang), an ex-Crusader turned ...

When William Tell refuses to salute the tyrannical Governor’s hat, his punishment is to put his son’s life in danger. Rossini’s opera, based on Friedrich Schiller’s play, is performed in Lausanne for ...

Written and directed by Nick Hamm (The Hole), William Tell is at least the fifth film to be based on German writer Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 play of the same name – itself based on centuries ...

Director Nick Hamm has rooted his story in the William Tell play by Friedrich von Schiller, who re-popularised Tell in the early 1800s, but he's added some modern flourishes. This Tell ...