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5 unusual facts about The Name of the Rose


Benigembla

Some of the exteriors of the film "Her Majesty the Minor" were filmed in the fields of Benigembla, in October 2006, a super European production of the French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, who also directed The films "Seven Years in Tibet" and "The Name of the Rose".

Fra Dolcino

Fra Dolcino and his former followers are mentioned often in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

Melk Abbey

In his well-known novel The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco named one of the protagonists "Adson von Melk" as a tribute to the abbey and its famous library.

Michael of Cesena

Michael of Cesena was one of the historical characters in Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

Opera Soft

Nevertheless, their most important title is probably La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime), based on Umberto Eco's best-seller The Name of the Rose.


Bernard Gui

Bernard Gui (as Bernardo Gui) is an antagonist in the historical novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

Bertrand du Pouget

The Name of the Rose - a historical novel by Umberto Eco in which Bertrand du Pouget is one of the characters.

Boris Chaliapin

Boris Chaliapin (1904–1979) was the son of Russian opera singer Feodor Chaliapin and brother of The Name of the Rose actor Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

E.I.N.S.

The sentence "Wer keine Angst vor dem Teufel hat, braucht auch keinen Gott" (Who doesn't fear the devil, doesn't need a god) comes from the novel "The Name of the Rose" (Umberto Eco, 1980).

Eberbach Abbey

After considerable structural work Eberbach serves inter alia as a venue of international importance for cultural events and displays, and as a film location, as for example for Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose (1985).

Helmut Qualtinger

Qualtinger played countless theater, TV and film parts, making his final appearance in The Name of the Rose in 1986, along with Sean Connery.

Lapo Mosca

The first Lapo Mosca novel was published in 1978, a few years before The Name of the Rose in 1980 by Umberto Eco, the third and last one in 1991.

Lee In-hwa

The Eternal Empire (Yeongwonhan jeguk), modeled after Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, borrows elements of a detective novel in tracing the mystery surrounding the death of Prince Sado and his son King Jeongjo.

Michael Habeck

Habeck, who was born in Bad Grönenbach, also dubbed several characters in the German version of The Muppet Show, and appeared in the films The Name of the Rose and Asterix in Amerika.

Stephen Shank

In July 2011, he will be directing the stage world premiere of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose in the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers-la-Ville, Belgium.


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