The Name of the Rose (original title, Der Name der Rose) is a 1986 film by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the book of the same name by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery is the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and Christian Slater is his apprentice Adso of Melk. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (400x607, 80 KB)original movie poster source:www. ... Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. ... Bernd Eichinger (born 11 April 1949) is a German film producer and director. ... Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema. ... Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. ... Michael Lonsdale (born May 24, 1931 in Paris) is a French actor perhaps best known for his role as Sir Hugo Drax in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker. ... Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York), billed as Ron Perlman, is an American television, film and voice over actor. ... Fahrid Murray Abraham[1] (born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. ... James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ... Tonino Delli Colli (November 20, 1923 - August 17, 2005) was an Italian cinematographer. ... Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the major American film studios. ... Warner Bros. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jean-Jacques Annaud Jean-Jacques Annaud (born October 1, 1943) is a French film director. ... The Name of the Rose, a novel by Umberto Eco, is a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327. ... Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. ... Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... Picture of the book in the binding provided by the Folio Society The Name of the Rose, a 1980 novel by Umberto Eco, is a murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327 during the papacy of Pope John XXII. The book was also made into a... Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. ...

Synopsis

William of Baskerville and his apprentice Adso of Melk (narrating as an old man, it later transpires) arrive at an abbey where a mysterious death has occurred ahead of an important Church conference. William, known for his deductive and analytic mind, confronts the worried Abbot and gains permission to investigate the death – a young translator appears to have committed suicide. Over the next few days, several other bizarre deaths occur, and the two discover that not everything is what it seems in the abbey.

Investigating and keen to head off accusations of demonic possession (which nevertheless eventually leads to the burning of two innocent men at the stake) the protagonists discover and explore a labyrinthine medieval library, constructed on multiple levels in the abbey's forbidden principal tower. It becomes clear that the only remaining copy of Aristotle's Second Book of Poetics is somehow related to the deaths. William deduces, thanks to a scrap of parchment with hastily written notes, that all of those who died under mysterious circumstances had read the book. His investigations are curtailed by the arrival of Bernard Gui of the Inquisition, summoned for the conference and keen to investigate the deaths. The two men clashed in the past and the zealous inquisitor has no time for theories outside his own: that The Devil is responsible – and torture will reveal the truth. Demonic possession, in supernatural belief systems, is a form of spiritual possession whereby certain malevolent extra-dimensional entities, demons, gain control over a mortal persons body, which is then used for an evil or destructive purpose. ... Aristotle (Greek: AristotélÄ“s) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. ... Aristotles Poetics aims to give an account of poetry. ... Bernard Gui (1261 or 1262 – 30 December 1331 Laroux), also known as Bernardo Gui or Bernardus Guidonis, was an inquisitor of the Dominican Order in the Late Middle Ages during the Medieval Inquisition, Bishop of Lodève, and one of the most prolific writers of the Middle Ages. ... Inquisition (capitalized I) is broadly used, to refer to things related to judgment of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. ... The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ... Torture is defined by the United Nations Convention Against Torture as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he...

Ascending the forbidden library, William and Adso come face to face with the Venerable Jorge, the most ancient denizen of the abbey, who reveals the book, which contains a description of comedy and how it may be used to teach. Being afraid of laughter and comedy – the traditionalist firmly asserts that Christ never laughed and jocularity is a blasphemous sin – Jorge has poisoned the pages to avoid the spread of what he considers dangerous ideas. (A common method of reading books at the time was to lick one's finger to moisten it in order to turn the pages; when the page corners were poisoned, the reader licking his poisoned finger died soon thereafter.) Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ... Christ is the English of the Greek word (Christós), which literally means The Anointed One. ... Sin is a term used mainly in a religious context to describe an act that violates a moral rule, or the state of having committed such a violation. ...

William of Baskerville and his apprentice Adso of Melk

Realising that William knows of the poisoned pages and will not fall for the same trick, Jorge throws over a candle, starting a blaze that spreads quickly in the tower, the internal structure of which is completely made of wood. As it contains innumerable rare and unique books of infinite value, this devastates William, who insists Adso flee while he desperately tries to save as many tomes as possible. The fire destroys both Jorge and the Second Book of the Poetics, but miraculously William does make it out with a few precious books. Facing a local rebellion due to his harsh methods, Bernard Gui is fortunately denied his revenge on William and forced to flee – but dies horribly at the hands of the mob. Later, William and Adso take their leave – the latter having lost his heart and virginity to a semi-feral local girl (possibly the rose) whom he nevertheless turns his back on in favour of remaining with William and his calling. Image File history File links NameOTRose. ... Image File history File links NameOTRose. ...

Major changes from the book

• The film has a much more simplified plot, with far more action in it.
• In the book, Adso is a Benedictine, but the film makes him a Franciscan like William.
• A lengthy dream sequence near the end (Terce of the sixth day) dreamt by Adso is non-existent in the film. It is mostly based, William tells Adso, on the Coena Cypriani, which illustrates a comedic assembly of many biblical characters. There are several versions, one of which is found bound together with Aristotle's Poetics, and its popularity shows how comedy attracts the attention of the young. Adso was very familiar with this text; Jorge was disgusted by it.
• In the book, the Abbot explicitly assigns William as an investigator and orders everyone to help him if he requests something. He also explicitly tells that entering the aedificium is forbidden in the evenings.
• A major character (and suspect) from the book is omitted in the film adaptation: Benno of Uppsala, who even joins William and Adso for a short period of their investigation. He runs into the library as the abbey burns, presumably dying when the floor collapses.
• The Abbot is the sixth victim in the book, whereas in the film he just stops appearing.
• A lot of dialogue regarding religion and comedy, as well as much discussion by the main characters about the current time period and the heretics is cut drastically down.
• Jorge's motivation is reduced by cutting out the history of the Abbey librarians, who traditionally later become the Abbots. This takes with it the history of Jorge being passed over for that position, and his subsequently setting up the current Abbot, Librarian, and Assistant as puppets. The sermon that Jorge gives on the apocalypse and the ruin of the Abby because of its pursuit for knowledge is reduced to an exclamation during the panic following Malachi's death.
• The most notable of changes is the ending: the film has Remigio and Salvatore being burnt at the stake by Bernardo Gui, who is killed by peasants before being able to burn The Girl. In the book, Gui does not die, and he takes Remigio, The Girl and Salvatore with him and his escorts. Remigio is taken to Avignon, the seat of the pope, for a final trial before he is burnt. William tells Adso that Gui will burn The Girl on the way, and that Salvatore, who is supposedly forgiven, may or may not be burnt as well.
• The last line of the film suggests that the Girl is the "rose" of the title, since Adso never found out her name; however, "The Name of the Rose" originally derived from a Latin phrase, the last line of the book: Stat rosa pristina nomine; nomina nuda tenemus ("Yesterday's rose endures in its name; we only hold empty names"), [1] suggesting that the "name" is the book itself (or perhaps Asdo's reconstructed library) and the "rose" represents all the people and wisdom that Adso depicts within his book, or that particular Abby Library, or the general glory of earlier Benedictines.

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Cast

(in credits order)

• Sean Connery - William of Baskerville
• Christian Slater - Adso of Melk
• Michael Lonsdale - The Abbot
• Helmut Qualtinger - Remigio da Varagine
• Elya Baskin - Severinus
• Volker Prechtel - Malachia
• Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.- Jorge de Burgos
• Mark Bellinghaus - Jorge's Novice
• William Hickey - Ubertino da Casale
• Michael Habeck - Berenger
• 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
• Donald O'Brien - Pietro d'Assisi (as Donal O'Brian)
• Andrew Birkin - Cuthbert of Winchester
• F. Murray Abraham - Bernardo Gui
• Lucien Bodard - Cardinal Bertrand
• Peter Berling - Jean d'Anneaux
• Pete Lancaster - Bishop of Alborea
• Dwight Weist - Voice of Adso as an Old Man (voice)

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Awards

• The film was awarded the César for best foreign film.
• The film was awarded two BAFTAs. Sean Connery for best actor, and Hasso von Hugo won Best Make Up Artist.

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Trivia

• Though there were scattered Inquisition-like activities in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in northern Italy, the film's description of a centralized Inquisition structure is anachronistic, as such an organization only began to exist in Spain approximately one hundred years after the film's setting.^{[citations needed]}

• Helmut Qualtinger was seriously ill during the filming and in fact died only a few hours after shooting his last scene. He frequently had to interrupt his dialogue because of the pain he was in.^{[citations needed]}

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See also

• Middle Ages in film
• The Name of the Rose (novel)

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