Der Name der Rose (Best of Cinema) / Der Name der Rose

Der Franziskanermönch William von Baskerville und sein Schüler Adson sehen sich, zu Gast in einer Benediktinerabtei, mit einer Serie skurriler Morde und einem herzlosen Großinquisitor konfrontiert. Der Schlüssel zu den schrecklichen Ereignissen - ein Buch mit vergifteten Seiten - findet sich in der labyrinthischen Klosterbibliothek, die am Ende mit ihren Schätzen bis auf die Grundmauern niederbrennt.

English:
Anno Domini 1327, last week of November, in a rich Benedictine abbey on the slopes of the Apennines. Brother William of Baskerville (SEAN CONNERY), a learned Franciscan from England, arrives as the emperor's special envoy on a delicate mission: to organize a highly political meeting between Minorites suspected of heresy and emissaries of the pope. But soon his stay in the abbey turns out to be an apocalyptic horror. William and his assistant Adson (CHRISTIAN SLATER) witness the most wondrous and, for an abbey, most strange occurrences and deaths. William is gripped by investigative fever: Far more than the quarrel between the emperor and the pope, he is interested in unmasking the murderer, penetrating deeper and deeper into the secrets of the abbey. And he must hurry: his worst adversary Bernardo Gui (F.MURRAY ABRAHAM), a merciless hunter of witches and heretics, believes that the devil is at work behind the incidents and has quickly found his scapegoats...