The Name of the Rose (film)
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Original film poster by Drew Struzan
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| Directed by | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| Produced by |
Bernd Eichinger Bernd Schaefers |
| Screenplay by |
Andrew Birkin Gérard Brach Howard Franklin Alain Godard |
| Based on |
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco |
| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Dwight Weist |
| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Tonino Delli Colli |
| Edited by | Jane Seitz |
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ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
France 3 Cinema Radiotelevisione Italiana Neue Constantin Film Les Films De Ariane Acteurs Auteurs Associés Cristaldi Film |
| Distributed by |
20th Century Fox (USA & Canada) Columbia Pictures (International) |
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Release date
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Running time
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126 minutes |
| Country | Italy West Germany France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $17.5 million |
| Box office | $77,153,487 |
The Name of the Rose is a 1986 Italian-French-German drama mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco.Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk, who are called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
As an old man, Adso, son of the Baron of Melk recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he joined his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville on a journey to a Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with Papal emissaries the poverty of Christ. The abbey also boasts a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books. The suspicious recent death of the monk Adelmo of Otranto —a young but famous manuscript illuminator— has stirred fears among the abbey's inhabitants. The Abbot seeks help from William, known for his deductive powers. Adelmo's death cannot be a suicide because his body was found below a tower with only a window which cannot be opened. William is reluctant, but also drawn by the intellectual challenge and his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit. William also fears the abbot will summon officials of the Inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.
William soon concludes that Adelmo's death was indeed suicide; he fell from a different tower. Nevertheless, Venantius, a Greek translator —and the last to speak with Adelmo— is found dead in a vat filled with the blood of slaughtered pigs. The translator's corpse bears a black stain on a finger and his tongue. At a loss, William insists that Adelmo killed himself and that the translator's death can be reasonably explained. The other monks suspect a supernatural cause, fears reinforced when the saintly Fransciscan monk Ubertino of Casale warns that the deaths resemble signs mentioned in the Book of Revelation.
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