William Tell (1923 film)

William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt, and Erich Kaiser-Titz. The film portrays the story of the legendary Swiss national hero William Tell. The sets were designed by Rudi Feld.^[1] It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.

William Tell
Theatrical film poster
German	Wilhelm Tell
Directed by	Rudolf Dworsky Rudolf Walther-Fein
Written by	Willy Rath
Starring	Hans Marr Conrad Veidt Erich Kaiser-Titz
Cinematography	Guido Seeber
Production company	Althoff-Ambos-Film
Distributed by	Aafa-Film
Release date	23 August 1923 (1923-08-23)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Weimar Republic
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Cast

• Hans Marr as Wilhelm Tell
• Conrad Veidt as Hermann Gessler
• Erich Kaiser-Titz as Emperor Albrecht I
• Emil Rameau as Chancellor
• Fritz Kampers as Rudolf the Harra
• Hermann Vallentin as Wolffenschießen
• Josef Peterhans as Landenberger
• Erna Morena as Berta von Bruneck
• Käthe Haack as Agi, her partner
• Max Gülstorff as Attinghausen
• Johannes Riemann as Ulrich von Rudenz
• Xenia Desni as Hedwig Tell
• Otto Gebühr as Heinrich von Melchthal
• Theodor Becker as Konrad Baumgarten
• Carl Ebert as Arnold von Melchthal (as Karl Ebert)
• Grete Reinwald as Armgard Baumgarten, his wife
• Eduard von Winterstein as Stauffacher
• Robert Leffler as Rösselmann, Father
• Wilhelm Diegelmann as Uri's bull
• Agnes Straub as Stauffacherin
• Willi Müller as Walter, Tell's son
• Hans Peter Peterhans as Wilhelm, Tell's boy

See also

• William Tell (1934 film), also with Hans Marr and Conrad Veidt

References

1. Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York, NY: Berghahn Books. ISBN 0857455656. ^{[page needed]}

External links

• William Tell at IMDb