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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 ...
The 'Tell Monument' (German: Telldenkmal) is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. Tell monument in 2022. The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895, at the foot of an old tower. It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son.
William Tell's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has also been connected with non-European folklore).
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 ...
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 ...
Lauren Conrad and William Tell's Family Photo Album. Read article “I think we’re at capacity,” she exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, June 22. “We feel good about it, but we both ...
In 1946, she began a relationship with William S. Burroughs, later becoming his common-law wife. In 1951, Burroughs killed Vollmer. He claimed, and shortly thereafter denied, the killing was a drunken attempt at playing William Tell.
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 ...