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The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
First aired on Oct 11, 1986
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Genres: Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Jean-Jacques Annaud | Self
Umberto Eco | Self
Sean Connery | Self
Dante Ferretti | Self
Bernd Eichinger | Self
Jacques Le Goff | Self
Featured Crew
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Wolfgang Würker | Director
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Margarete Nielsen | Editor
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Sylvia Strasser | Director
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Michael Busch | Sound
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Birgit ingeln | Editor
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Hans Fromm | Cinematography