William Tell (1934 film)

William Tell
Directed by	Heinz Paul
Written by	Friedrich Schiller (play) Hans Curjel Hanns Johst Max Maxudian Wilhelm Stöppler Heinz Paul
Produced by	Ralph Scotoni
Starring	Hans Marr Conrad Veidt Emmy Göring Olaf Bach
Cinematography	Sepp Allgeier Franz Josef Dahinden Franz Weihmayr
Edited by	Paul May Lena Neumann
Music by	Marceau Van Hoorebecke Herbert Windt Jean Yatove
Production companies	Terra-Filmkunst Schweizer Film-Finanzierungs
Distributed by	Terra-Filmkunst (Germany)
Release date	12 January 1934
Running time	99 minutes
Countries	Germany Switzerland
Language	German

William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1934 German-Swiss historical film directed by Heinz Paul and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Emmy Göring. It is based on the 1804 play William Tell by Friedrich Schiller about the Swiss folk hero William Tell. It was made in Germany by Terra Film, with a separate English-language version supervised by Manning Haynes also being released. While working on the film Veidt, who had recently given sympathetic performances of Jews in Jew Suss (1934) and The Wandering Jew, was detained by the authorities. It was only after pressure from the British Foreign Office that he was eventually released. It is also known by the alternative title The Legend of William Tell.

Cast

• Hans Marr as Guillaume Tell
• Conrad Veidt as Gessler
• Emmy Göring as Hedwig Tell (credited as Emmy Sonnemann)
• Olaf Bach as Arnold von Melchthal
• Eugen Klöpfer as Heinrich von Melchthal
• Maly Delschaft as Barbara von Melchthal
• Theodor Loos as Werner Stauffacher
• Franziska Kinz as Gertrud Stauffacher
• Carl de Vogt as Konrad Baumgarten
• Käthe Haack as Baumgartnerin
• Fritz Hofbauer as Walter Fürst
• Detlef Willecke as Walter, Tells Sohn
• Wolfdieter Hollender as Klein-Wilhelm, Tells jüngster Sohn
• Werner Schott as Vogt Landenberg
• Friedrich Ettel as Vogt Wolfenschiess
• Josef Peterhans as Pfarrer Rösselmann
• Herma Clement as Armgard
• Paul Bildt as Schultheiss von Luzern
• Max Hochstetter as Kaiserlicher Hauptmann
• Willem Haardt as Kaiserlicher Hauptmann
• Heinrich Schroth as Kaiserlicher Hauptmann
• Georg H. Schnell as Kaiserlicher Statthalter

See also

• William Tell (1923), also with Hans Marr and Conrad Veidt

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925–1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.
• Hull, David Stewart. Film in the Third Reich: A Study of the German Cinema, 1933–1945. University of California Press, 1969.
• Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986.

External links

• William Tell at IMDb