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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986)
Directed by Sylvia Strasser, Wolfgang Würker
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.
Length 39 minutes
Actors
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