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Frankrijk / Italië / West-Duitsland
Thriller / Misdaad
130 minuten

geregisseerd door Jean-Jacques Annaud
met Sean Connery, Christian Slater en F. Murray Abraham

Na een mysterieuze dood in een klooster, denken de monniken dat dit het begin van de nieuwe apocalypse is. Het is ook uiterst slecht getimed aangezien ze binnenkort bezoek krijgen van belangrijke geestelijke leiders. Ze vragen daarom hulp van de monnik William of Baskerville, ze willen dat hij uitvindt wat er hier gaande is. Samen met zijn leerling gaat hij op onderzoek uit, maar hij moet ook vechten tegen de klok aangezien ze belangrijk bezoek verwachten.

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Studio: Warner Benelux

DVD Release Date: August 6, 2004


Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Principal Cast:
          Sean Connery,
          Christian Slater,
          Ron Perlman


Description:
Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William is called in to investigate. As he and his apprentice, Adson von Melk (Christian Slater), delve deeper and deeper into the case, more dead bodies begin to turn up. Eventually, Bernardo Gui, an inquisitor played by F. Murray Abraham gets involved, but he may not have the best intentions. Sean Connery's performance earned him the award for Best Actor at the 1988 British Academy Awards. 


Format: PAL

DVD Size: 7.78 + 4.30 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 130 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 | Widescreen anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English DD5.1 | French DD2.0

Subtitles: optional English | French | Dutch | Arabic | Bulgarian | Romanian


DISC FEATURES:

DISC 1
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# Audio commentary by director Jean-Jacques Annaud in English.
# Audio commentary by director Jean-Jacques Annaud in French (no subtitles)
# German documentary -- "The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose" (43:21) (narration in German but there is some English as well when the actors speak or the film is being shot; there is some Italian as well; subtitles: English, English (HI), French, Dutch, Arabic, Bulgarian, Romanian, none).
# Photo video journey with director Jean-Jacques Annaud (16:06) (English, subtitles: English, French, Dutch, Arabic, Bulgarian, Romanian, none)

DISC 2
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# Interview (documentary) with director Jean-Jacques Annaud, exclusive to this DVD.
# The first part ("La Genese") is a very thorough making-off covering every aspect of pre-production, production and post-production.
# The second part ("Les Cles du Labyrinthe") deals with the historic details of that period (life, monks, the Church, the Inquisition, etc.)
# The documentary lasts 1:56:23, you can see all of it at once or you can see both parts separately, and there are 18 chapters (French, subtitles: English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish).


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