The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' (1986)
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.
Directors: Sylvia Strasser, Wolfgang Würker.
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Jean-Jacques Annaud as Self |
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Umberto Eco as Self |
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Sean Connery as Self |
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Dante Ferretti as Self |
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Bernd Eichinger as Self |
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Jacques Le Goff as Self |
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F. Murray Abraham as Self |
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Helmut Qualtinger as Self |
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Christian Slater as Self |
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Volker Prechtel as Self |
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Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Self |
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Michael Lonsdale as Self |
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Tonino Delli Colli as Self |
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Michael Habeck as Self |
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Ron Perlman as Self (uncredited) |
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Valentina Vargas as Self (uncredited) |
| Directing | Sylvia Strasser | Director |
| Directing | Wolfgang Würker | Director |
| Sound | Enzio Edschmid | Sound |
| Sound | Michael Busch | Sound |
| Editing | Margarete Nielsen | Editor |
| Editing | Birgit ingeln | Editor |
| Sound | Jürgen Offermann | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Günter Handwerker | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Hans Fromm | Director of Photography |