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The Name of the Rose (2019)

First aired March 4, 201952m/ep1 season · 8 epsEnded
7.0

117 votes

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Overview

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

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Seasons

Status

Ended

Language

Occitan

Type

Miniseries

Last Air Date

March 25, 2019

Networks

Rai 1

Production

11 Marzo FilmPalomarRAITele München

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5.0

I was really looking forward to this adaptation, although on the whole I guessed that a work of this magnitude would hardly succumb at the second attempt. Guess ... Of course, during the viewing it was not possible to avoid comparisons with the 1986 film, and this is what happened. In the old film version was almost immaculate hit with a choice of actors. All But the huge miscalculation is that, due to the lack of screen time, they simply cut off the entire boundless field of medieval culture, leaving a detective line, and expanded the melodrama unnecessarily - even the name was interpreted in…

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