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The Name of the Rose is a 1986 historical mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. [3] Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
Medieval whodunnit, which follows Umberto Eco ’s plot though jettisoning the novel’s philosophical raison d’être. Reversing the usual procedure, where real exteriors lead to studio sets, the exterior of the Italian monastery is a vast set which was built just outside of Rome.
The Name of the Rose: Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin. An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- 1986-09-24
Discover some unique and fascinating locations around Italy where both the BBC movie “The Name of the Rose” (1986) and the RAI the tv series (2019) were shot. Be brought back in time into the Italian Middle Ages!
The Name of the Rose (Italian: Il nome della rosa [il ˈnoːme della ˈrɔːza]) is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
- Umberto Eco
- 1980
In 1327, a Franciscan monk and his pupil (Connery and Christian Slater) arrive at a monastery in northern Italy to attend an important theological Roman Church conference. When monks are found dead in mysterious ways, William (Connery) winds up being the Medieval version of Sherlock Holmes.
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The Name of the Rose: Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin. An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
