COUNTRY
United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland
PRODUCTION
Free Turn Films, Tempo Productions, Beta Cinema, Wme Independent, Prime Focus Studios, Groenlandia, Cineroma, Crossbow Films Limited
YEAR2023
DURATION131 min
WRITING Nick Hamm
CINEMATOGRAPHY Jamie D. Ramsay Sasc
MUSIC
Steven Price
EDITION Yan Miles - ACE
CAST Claes Bang, Connor Swindells, Golshifteh Farahani, Jonah Hauer-King, Ellie Bamber, Rafe Spall, Amar Chadha-Patel, Sam Keeley, Jake Dunn, Tobias Jowett, Solly Mcleod, Emily Beecham, Jonathan Pryce, Ben Kingsley
INTERNATIONAL SALES Beta Cinema
CONTACT miguel.pintado@betafiction.es
SYNOPSIS In 1307, Austrian forces oppress Switzerland. William Tell, a former Crusader, vows peace but joins a rebellion. Governor Gessler forces Tell to shoot an apple off his son’s head, sparing him. Captured with Princess Bertha, they escape. Tell fails to kill Gessler, and Bertha’s pleas to the king fail. She kills the king and prince, while Tell finds his wife dying in their ransacked town. Tell leads a rebellion, kills Gessler, and frees his son. Austria is defeated, but Queen Agnes vows revenge.
Nick Hamm
BAFTA-winning director and producer, has worked with Lionsgate, Miramax, and Paramount. He started at the Royal Shakespeare Company and debuted with
The Bottom Line in 1989, later directing
The Hole,
Godsend, and
Killing Bono. He co-founded Momentum TV, producing
Rogue and
Full Circle. Hamm's
The Journey (Venice/Toronto) depicted the reconciliation of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness. In 2017, he directed
Driven, about John DeLorean, which premiered at Venice and Toronto. For Netflix, he directed
White Lines by Álex Pina, a global hit. Hamm co-founded Free Turn in 2020, directing
Gigi & Nate, and has now brought the historical epic
William Tell to theaters.
FILMOGRAPHY
William Tell (feature film, 2025)
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