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

6.5 39 mins Documentary   TV Movie   1986
Paolo-Film   ZDF   ORF  
Director(s): Sylvia Strasser Wolfgang Würker

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.

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

Umberto Eco

as Self

Sean Connery

as Self

Dante Ferretti

as Self

Bernd Eichinger

as Self

Jacques Le Goff

as Self

Volker Prechtel

as Self

Michael Habeck

as Self

Ron Perlman

as Self (uncredited)

Valentina Vargas

as Self (uncredited)

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