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James Caviezel as William Tell

James Caviezel will play William Tell in an upcoming movie about Swiss hero with crossbow.

Movie based on a medieval legend will recount how crossbow marksman William Tell challenged the Habsburg monarch Hermann Gessler, played by Til Schweiger. Tell’s defiance ignited an uprising against the Austrian government which led to the formation of Switzerland.

Filming will start in September 2010 in Romania.

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William Tell

William Tell, who originally hailed from Bürglen, was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. At the time, the Habsburg emperors of Austria were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian  Vogt  of Altdorf, raised a pole in the village’s central square, hung his hat on top of it, and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before the hat. When Tell passed by the hat without bowing to it, he was arrested. He received the punishment of being forced to shoot an apple off the head of his son, Walter, or else both would be executed. Tell had been promised freedom if he successfully shot the apple.


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