Medieval detective
“The Name of the Rose,” which will start at the Savoy tomorrow, is a tale of death and intrigue set in a fourteenth-cen-tury cloister. It is based on Umberto Eco’s novel, which was first published in Italy in 1980 and has sold four million copies worldwide, being translated into 24 languages. Sean Connery plays Brother William of Baskerville, the brilliant English monk turned sleuth. The unyielding inquisitor, Bernardo Gui, William’s antagonist, is portrayed by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance as Salieri in “Amadeus.” "The Name of the Rose” was filmed in a medieval monastery shrouded in snow in West Germany, on a hilltop outside Rome, and at Rome’s Cinecitta Studios. The director, JeanJacques Annaud, first learnt about the novel in 1982, when in the Caribbean promoting “Quest
for Fire.” He read a small article on the literary page of “Le Monde” on a book
about to be published in France, a detective story set in the fourteenth century.
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Press, 23 July 1987, Page 24
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