Wilhelm Tell (castles in flames)
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| German title | Wilhelm Tell (castles in flames) |
| Original title | Wilhelm Tell (mountain fire blaze) |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1960 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Michel Dickoff , Karl Hartl |
| script | Karl Hartl, Michel Dickoff, Max Frisch , Luise Kaelin , Hannes Schmidhauser |
| production | Josef Richard Kaelin |
| music | Hans Haug , Kurt Svab |
| camera | Hans Schneeberger (Head of Camera), Adolf Jenny , Fritz E. Maeder (Second Unit) |
| cut | Hermann Ludwig , Paula Vibel |
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Wilhelm Tell (Castles in Flames) (Italian film title: Guglielmo Tell - La freccia del giustiziere , French film title: Guillaume Tell , English film title: William Tell ) - is a Swiss film adaptation of the 1960 drama Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller Michel Dickoff and Karl Hartl , the producer was Josef Richard Kaelin
“Castles in Flames” is the story of the Swiss hero of freedom, William Tell , who freed original Switzerland from the tyranny of the Austrian provosts. The film was made during the Cold War and was intended to serve as a «call from the free world to all tyrants at all times and in all places».
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The film, shot at great expense, depicts the local population's struggle for freedom in the cantons of Uri , Schwyz and Unterwalden . It begins with the flight of Konrad Baumgarten, who had killed a bailiff of the emperor because he wanted to assault his wife. The most famous scenes from the liberation sagas such as the Rütli oath , the apple shot , the trip across Lake Lucerne and Gessler's murder in Hohlen Gasse are also shown . The game scenes are interrupted by conversations between Ulrich von Rudenz and Landfräulein Berta von Bruneck. The film ends with a (fictional) uprising in which the bailiffs' castles are stormed and burned down.
production
The budget for “Tell” was 3.5 million Swiss francs , and the film was shot on Eastmancolor in widescreen format . All of the recordings were shot at the historical locations in the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden and Ticino. Filming lasted twelve weeks: six weeks for the interior shots and six for the exterior shots. The premiere took place in the presence of the Swiss government, represented by Federal Councilor Ludwig von Moos , the head of the Justice and Police Department and the main actors in December 1960 in the Cinéma Corso in Zurich. The look wrote of a glamorous world premiere. The planned duration of the presentation time was extended by eight weeks. The film was considered one of the most important Swiss films of its time.
“Tell” only brought in half of the production costs. From Moscow, where the film had won a prize at a film festival, an offer of half a million Swiss francs came for exploitation by the Soviet film distributor Sovexportfilm. In Switzerland there was patriotic resistance. His request to parliament to take over the deficit of 1.5 million francs failed. Kaelin sold the film to the Soviet Union despite resistance.
However, Kaelin also managed to cover his deficit with his inventions and the surface aerator BSK (ventilation system Kaelin), whereby his newly founded company NORM AMC AG achieved an annual turnover of CHF 3.5 million in a short time. This enabled him to cope with the high costs of his Tell film production.
Awards and criticism
While the NZZ only found that some roles were wrongly cast, the “Lexicon of Swiss Film History” wrote of “well-ironed costumes” and “beautifully photographed landscapes”. The film received awards at a film festival in India and at the Moscow International Film Festival , where it received the award for best director. Today the film is under Swiss cultural property protection . The sale of the DVD serves to restore the work.
Copyright dispute
Since 2002 there has been a dispute over the copyrights of the film between Josef Richard Kaelin's son Albert Kälin and Swiss television. For the contribution of the Swiss observer “I will never give up” on September 13, 2006, Swiss television has not yet been able to present any documents that would prove that the film was bought. It was found through renewed evidence that Swiss television is only entitled to limited broadcasting rights.
A film distributor who allegedly had himself registered with Suissimage (Swiss cooperative for copyrights to audiovisual works) as the owner of the rights with the intention of subcontracting the supposed rights that he was not entitled to on Swiss television then also collected the broadcasting fees until 2005 nor the compensation for copyrights and ancillary copyrights. After years of fighting against various lawyers, the producer's son, Albert Josef Kaelin, decided to take ownership of the work, subject to the condition that Swiss television had to take part in the restoration of the film. This agreement has now become legally binding through a new resolution dated February 24, 2009.
With the agreements of February 24, 2010 and January 5, 2011, the film company Praesens-Film AG in Zurich has all rights belonging to Albert Josef Kaelin (ie negative, copyright, remake and temporally and geographically unlimited exploitation rights, which are excluded from this the free TV rights in Switzerland that are held by Swiss television).
Web links
- William Tell (Castles in flames) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer for the film on Youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b “I will never give up” article in Swiss Observer, Issue 19 of September 13, 2006
- ↑ Sunday newspaper