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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adapted from the 1804 play by Friedrich Schiller, it focuses on the legend ... Despite this, he adds, William Tell is a story with very contemporary resonance – an oppressed people seeking ...

The Danish actor was 50 when he became an international star thanks to the success of the hit art satire ‘The Square’. Since then his career has rocketed with roles in projects such as ‘Dracula’ and ...

In 1804, the play Wilhelm Tell by German playwright Friedrich von Schiller was first performed. This, in turn, inspired the opera, William Tell, by Rossini, which premiered in 1829. Engraving of a ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

How to get to Lake Uri: The ideal way to see Lake Uri is by boat. Take the SGV ferry service from Brunnen to Flüelen, lasting ...