Der Name der Rose - Lichtburg Open Air am Dom

Lichtburg Open Air at the Cathedral - Doors open at 8:00 p.m.

For the 40th anniversary: Producer Bernd Eichinger and director Jean-Jacques Annaud turned Umberto Eco’s bestseller into a fascinating Sherlock Holmes story starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, and F. Murray Abraham.

“Labyrinthine, eerie, and wildly suspenseful.” Cinema

In the year 1327, during the last week of November, at a wealthy 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: He is to organize a highly political meeting between the Minorites—suspected of heresy—and envoys of the Pope. But his stay at the abbey soon turns into an apocalyptic ordeal. William and his assistant Adson (CHRISTIAN SLATER) witness the most wondrous—and, for an abbey, highly unsettling—events and deaths. William is gripped by a feverish desire to investigate: far more than the conflict between the Emperor and the Pope, he is interested in unmasking the murderer, and in doing so, he delves ever deeper into the abbey’s secrets. And he must hurry: his fiercest adversary, Bernardo Gui (F. MURRAY ABRAHAM)—a ruthless hunter of witches and heretics—believes the devil is at work behind the incidents and has quickly found his scapegoats…

Source: Constantin