The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
6.50
January 1986
39 min
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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
DE
Genres:
Documentary, TV Movie
Release:
October 1986
Production:
Paolo-Film, ZDF, ORF
Cast:
Jean-Jacques Annaud, Umberto Eco, Sean Connery, Dante Ferretti, Bernd Eichinger, Jacques Le Goff, F. Murray Abraham, Helmut Qualtinger, Christian Slater, Volker Prechtel, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Michael Lonsdale, Tonino Delli Colli, Michael Habeck, Ron Perlman, Valentina Vargas
