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 ...

William Tell’s status as a folk hero makes his story kind of a Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves for the Swiss, only they're taking a country from the rich (Austria) and giving it to the poor.

Like many who grew up in the ’90s, I have a fondness for period epics. So when I saw the description of William Tell while ...

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 ...

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 ...