William Tell (1960 film)

William Tell
Directed by	Michel Dickoff
Produced by	Josef R. Kaelin
Written by	Michel Dickoff
Starring	Robert Freitag
Cinematography	Hans Schneeberger
Release dates	1960 (1960)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Switzerland
Language	German

William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1960 Swiss adventure film directed by Michel Dickoff and Karl Hartl and starring Robert Freitag, Wolfgang Rottsieper and Alfred Schlageter.^[1] It is based on the traditional folk story of William Tell. The film was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

Robert Freitag as Wilhelm Tell
Wolfgang Rottsieper as Gessler
Alfred Schlageter as Walter Fürst
Hannes Schmidhauser as Arnold von Melchtal
Leopold Biberti as Werner Stauffacher
Maria Becker as Gertrud Stauffacher
Heinz Woester as Attinghausen
Georges Weiss as Rudenz
Birke Bruck as Berta von Bruneck
Zarli Carigiet as Baumgarten
Helen Hesse as Baumgartnerin
Paul Bühlmann as Rudi
Inigo Gallo as Frieshart

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58192
↑ "2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961)". MIFF. Retrieved 2012-11-04.

External links

William Tell at the Internet Movie Database

William Tell

Characters	William Tell Albrecht Gessler

Literature	White Book of Sarnen (1474) Tellenlied (1470s) Chronicon Helveticum (1550-70) Urner Tellspiel (1512) Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation (1505-7) William Tell (play, 1804)

Opera	Guillaume Tell (1791) William Tell (1829) (William Tell Overture)

Film	William Tell (1923) William Tell (1934) William Tell (1960) The Adventures of William Tell (1958-59) Crossbow (1987-90) The Legend of William Tell (1998)

Other	Rütlischwur Shooting an apple off one's child's head

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