William Tell (1934 film)

William Tell
Cover of the film's Illustrierter Film-Kurier number
GermanWilhelm Tell
Directed byHeinz Paul
Written by
Produced byRalph Scotoni
Starring
Cinematography
Edited byPaul May
Lena Neumann
Music by
Production
companies
Terra Film
Schweizer Film-Finanzierungs
Distributed byTerra Film
Release date
  • 12 January 1934 (1934-01-12)
Running time
99 minutes
CountriesGermany
Switzerland
LanguageGerman

William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1934 German-Swiss historical drama 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. It was shot at the Marienfelde Studios of Terra Film in Berlin with location shooting in Switzerland. 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.[1] It is also known by the alternative title The Legend of William Tell.

  1. ^ Bergfelder, Tim; Cargnelli, Christian (2008). Destination London: German-speaking Emigres and British Cinema, 1925–1950. Film Europa. Berghahn Books. p. 148. ISBN 978-1845455323. JSTOR j.ctt9qd9x1.