
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986 de 39 minutes
Rating: 8
Plot
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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Cast

Jean-Jacques Annaud
Self

Umberto Eco
Self

Sean Connery
Self

Dante Ferretti
Self

Bernd Eichinger
Self

Jacques Le Goff
Self

F. Murray Abraham
Self

Helmut Qualtinger
Self

Christian Slater
Self

Volker Prechtel
Self

Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Self

Michael Lonsdale
Self

Tonino Delli Colli
Self

Michael Habeck
Self

Ron Perlman
Self (uncredited)

Valentina Vargas
Self (uncredited)