The monks are dead, but the gossip lives forever.
An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.
Direction
Jean-Jacques Annaud's chaotic production stories are worth the price of admission.
Production
The sheer nightmare of building that monastery set in 1985.
Director
Adam Zanzie
F. Murray Abraham
Self (archive footage)
Urs Althaus
Self
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Self (archive footage)
Elya Baskin
Self
Andrew Birkin
Self
Gérard Brach
Self (archive footage)
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Sean Connery
Self (archive footage)
Franco Cristaldi
Self (archive footage)
Tonino Delli Colli
Self (archive footage)
Umberto Eco
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 1986 film was shot at a real German monastery that had no electricity, forcing the crew to build their own generators.
This oral history arrives as part of a broader trend: the 'making-of documentary as art form,' treating production lore with the reverence once reserved for the films themselves.
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