The Name Of The Rose
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Warner Bros.  (1986) 130 mins R

7.8 (24,124 votes)
They Believed In God But Traded With The Devil.

It's the work of the Devil. That's what some say when a bizarre series of deaths strikes a 14th-century monastery. Others find links between the deaths and the book of Revelation. But Brother William of Baskerville thinks otherwise. He intends to find a murderer by using fact and reason - the tools of heresy.

Best Actor British Academy Award winner Sean Connery is wily William in this compelling adaptation of Umberto Eco's bestseller. Christian Slater plays Adso, aide to the sleuthing cleric and a youth on the verge of sexual and intellectual awakening. F. Murray Abraham is arrogance incarnate as the Inquisitor. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud filmed this moody mystery at an actual 12th-century monastery where hooded faces loom like gargoyles....

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Cast and Crew
Sean Connery  ......  William of Baskerville
Christian Slater  ......  Adso of Melk
Helmut Qualtinger  ......  Remigio da Varagine
Elya Baskin  ......  Severinus
Michael Lonsdale  ......  The Abbot
Volker Prechtel  ......  Malachia
Director  .....  Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producer  .....  Bernd Eichinger; Bernd Schaefers
Writer  .....  Umberto Eco; Andrew Birkin; Gerard Brach
Notes
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: When the monks proceed towards the final burning of their prisoners at the stake, Brother Berangar is among them, though he's supposed to be dead. (more)

Trivia:
The movie took 5 years of preparation. (more)

Filming Locations:
Abruzzo, Italy (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Voice of Adso as an Old Man: Having reached the end of my poor sinner's life, my hair now white, I prepare to leave on this parchment my testimony as to the wondrous and terrible events that I witnessed in my youth, towards the end of the year of our Lord 1327. May God grant me the wisdom and grace to be the faithful chronicler of the happenings that took place in a remote abbey in the dark north of Italy. An abbey whose name it seems, even now, pious and prudent to omit.
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Awards:
Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 14 wins & 2 nominations (more)