The Name of the Rose (Film 1986 - ENG&ITA SUB)

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. Audio in English with subtitles in English and Italian (click on CC for subtitles).

Adso of Melk recounts how, in 1327, as a young Franciscan novice, he and his mentor, Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, traveled to a Benedictine abbey in northern Italy where the Franciscans were to debate with papal emissaries the poverty of Christ. The abbey boasts a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books. The monk Adelmo of Otranto —a young but famous manuscript illuminator— was suspiciously found dead on a hillside below a tower with only a window that could not be opened. The abbot seeks help from William, who is renowned for his deductive powers. William is reluctantly drawn in by the intellectual challenge and his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit. William also worries the abbot will summon officials of the Inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved.

Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville (an amalgam of Sherlock Holmes and William of Occam), called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. Christian Slater portrays his young apprentice, Adso of Melk, and F. Murray Abraham his Inquisitor rival, Bernardo Gui. Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Valentina Vargas, and Ron Perlman play supporting roles. The film won several awards, including the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sean Connery.

This English-language film was an international co-production between West German, French, and Italian companies and was filmed in Rome and at the former Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau. The exterior and some of the interiors of the monastery seen in the film were constructed as a replica on a hilltop outside Rome and ended up being the biggest exterior set built in Europe since Cleopatra (1963). Many of the interiors were shot at Eberbach Abbey, Germany. Most props, including period illuminated manuscripts, were produced specifically for the film. Castel del Monte, in Puglia, was an inspiration for the reconstruction of the library of the abbey.

Cast & Characters:
Sean Connery as William of Baskerville
F. Murray Abraham as Bernardo Gui
Christian Slater as Adso of Melk
Dwight Weist as older Adso (voice)
Helmut Qualtinger as Remigio de Varagine
Elya Baskin as Severinus
Michael Lonsdale as The Abbot
Volker Prechtel as Malachia
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Jorge de Burgos
William Hickey as Ubertino of Casale
Michael Habeck as Berengar
Valentina Vargas as The Girl
Ron Perlman as Salvatore
Leopoldo Trieste as Michele da Cesena
Franco Valobra as Jerome of Kaffa
Vernon Dobtcheff as Hugh of Newcastle
Donal O'Brian as Pietro d'Assisi
Andrew Birkin as Cuthbert of Winchester
Lucien Bodard as Cardinal Bertrand
Peter Berling as Jean d'Anneaux
Pete Lancaster as Bishop of Alborea
Urs Althaus as Venantius
Lars Bodin-Jorgensen as Adelmo of Otranto
Kim Rossi Stuart as a novice