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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'

October 11, 1986
39m
Documentary
TV Movie
Critics
85/100
Story
82/100
Acting
88/100
Cinematography
90/100
Soundtrack
80/100

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey.

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Director
Sylvia Strasser, Wolfgang Würker
Cast
Jean-Jacques Annaud, Umberto Eco, Sean Connery, Dante Ferretti, Bernd Eichinger, Jacques Le Goff, F. Murray Abraham, Helmut Qualtinger, Christian Slater, Volker Prechtel
Release Date
October 11, 1986
Production
Paolo-Film, ZDF, ORF

Rating Distribution

User Ratings

5 Stars65%
1235
4 Stars25%
475
3 Stars8%
152
2 Stars2%
38
1 Stars0%
0
Total: 1,900 ratings

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