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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. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey.
Sep 24, 1986 · 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
The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell, and starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus, and David Keith.
Sep 24, 1986 · As Brother William, the voice of reason in an age of superstition, Sean Connery does his best to find the film's proper tone, which should have been provided by Mr. Annaud and the four people who...
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
May 1, 2012 · Name of the Rose is a detective thriller set in a medieval monastery. This genre bending story from the pen of Italian author Umberto Eco had “make me into a movie” written all over it. Murder, intrigue and gory death in the Middle Ages – what wasn’t to like?
Sep 1, 2023 · A film bathed in fog and Medieval earth tones, "The Name of the Rose" is an M.C. Escher labyrinth populated with Hieronymous Bosch grotesques. It's a throwback epic of the quasi-Biblical school, the "El Cid" of the '80s -- grand, ambitious, a huge canvas enfolding big themes and ideas and performed by larger than life…
Feb 19, 2015 · Yet in 1986, just six years after The Name of the Rose hit bookshelves, the movie version hit theaters, and in a big way. Jean-Jacques Annaud directed bonafide international superstar Sean Connery, Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham, and well-known French actor Michael Lonsdale .
