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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
While Tell is Swiss, fighting against the Austrians in 1307, Hamm saw his film as a “European story.” “William Tell” was produced by Free Turn Films and Tempo Productions. Germany-based ...
On November 23, a mother of three in Illinois had her own memorable moment to share.. After leaving her four-year-old daughter Cailey with her baby sister, Sky, to go on a quick washroom break ...
Swiss folk hero William Tell shows Gessler the bolt he meant to kill him with.. Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann, [1] was a legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff (German: Landvogt) at Altdorf, [2] whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy.
William Tell Told Again is a retelling of the William Tell legend in prose and verse with illustrations. The main prose element was written by P. G. Wodehouse , while Philip Dadd supplied the frontispiece and 15 full-page illustrations, all in colour.
Nick Hamm’s “William Tell” is a throwback. It’s a big-budget — roughly $45 million — action pic based on popular folklore and loaded with rousing action sequences, inspiring speeches ...
Prior to Carly Gregg's conviction for fatally shooting her mother and attempting to kill her stepfather, a child psychiatrist testified during her trial about the then-14-year-old's state of mind ...