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

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 11, 1986

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German, English, French, Italian

Countries

Germany

Production

ORF,ZDF,Paolo-Film

Cast

Dante Ferretti,Ron Perlman,Tonino Delli Colli,Valentina Vargas,Christian Slater,Michael Lonsdale,Jean-Jacques Annaud,Helmut Qualtinger,Bernd Eichinger,Michael Habeckand 6 more

Director

Sylvia Strasser,Wolfgang Würker

Cinematography

Hans Fromm,Günter Handwerker

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0446265