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Der Name der Rose (1986)
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24 September 1986 (USA) moreTagline:
Who, in the name of God, is getting away with murder? morePlot:
An intellectually nonconformist monk investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
Won 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 14 wins & 2 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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One of the most underrated movies of the eighties moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| 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 | |
| Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | ... | Jorge de Burgos | |
| William Hickey | ... | Ubertino da Casale | |
| Michael Habeck | ... | Berengar | |
| Urs Althaus | ... | Venantius | |
| Valentina Vargas | ... | The Girl | |
| Ron Perlman | ... | Salvatore | |
| Leopoldo Trieste | ... | Michele da Cesena | |
| Franco Valobra | ... | Jerome of Kaffa | |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | ... | Hugh of Newcastle |
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The Name of the Rose (UK) (USA)Il nome della rosa (Italy)
Le nom de la rose (France)
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130 minColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:14 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Spain:13 | UK:15 (re-rating) | Argentina:16 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Australia:MFun Stuff
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Jean-Jacques Annaud admitted to casting the ugliest actors he could get because he wanted the characters to appear "real", based on the men in the village where he lived. When he returned to his village, some of the men asked him if he really considered them to be as ugly as the actors, and he said, "Yes." moreGoofs:
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. moreQuotes:
[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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Umberto Eco's novel has something of a reputation as one of the great unread bestsellers. To have it on the shelf in the early eighties was a fashion statement as much as it was a literary necessity. And yet when the film was released, it was attacked for being an ineffective adaptation. Turning the 600-page novel, a detective mystery enriched by descriptions of medieval life and semiotic ruminations characteristic of Eco's academic writings, into a mainstream two-hour movie was, of course, ambitious. Four credited screenwriters and an international co-production gave off a sense of struggle and indecision. The movie was, and remains, easy to deride.
It's true that the film, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, has to skip, or skirt, much of Eco's detail - the famous pages-long description of the doorway, for example, is acknowledged by a few camera shots - but it takes the novel's literary strengths and offers a cinematic equivalent: a vivid depiction of monastic life which thrusts the viewer into the period of the story. In this respect, the production is exemplary: cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli, art director Dante Ferretti and composer James Horner were all operating at the top of their game.
And, as Renton in Trainspotting (1996) knows, Sean Connery proved a perfect choice as William of Baskerville, the 14th-century Sherlock Holmes figure investigating the deaths in an Italian monastery. It's one of Connery's best performances, a happy marriage of character acting and star casting: he suits the physical description of William and he properly conveys the character's wisdom, caution and sense of regret. Christian Slater's Adso, the narrator of the novel, is a surrogate for the viewer, expressing bafflement at the mystery story and awe at William's deductive powers; while F. Murray Abraham works wonders with the underwritten part of the inquisitor Bernardo Gui.
The Name of the Rose is one of the most underrated movies of the eighties. That it wasn't brilliant should not detract from the fact that it's as good as it is.