Sean Connery in a monk's habit, and the absolute chaos it took to get there.
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.
Production
Building a functioning 14th-century abbey from scratch—no CGI, just stone.
Direction
Annaud's obsessive eye for historical detail borders on unhinged.
Director
Wolfgang Würker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The abbey was built in Italy's Cinecittà studios but designed so meticulously that art historians later used it for research.
Eco notoriously resisted adaptations of his novel for years; his presence here signals rare approval—or perhaps morbid curiosity.
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