中世纪，一个修道院发生了一起教士莫名死亡的事件，修道院的主教遂邀请了异地的名声极好的教士William von Baskerville（肖恩·康纳利 Sean Connery 饰）和他的助手Novize Adson von Melk（克里斯汀·史莱特 Christian Slater 饰）来到修道院调查案件。William在调查中，发现他遭到了许多无形的阻挠和他人的警告，他隐约感觉到这个修道院背后的许多阴谋。更可怕的是，又有几个修道院里的人纷纷遇害，案件变得越来越扑朔迷离。William在不断深入的调查中，也越来越接近真相......
本片根据意大利作家安倍托·艾科的同名小说改编，获1988年英国学院奖最佳男演员和最佳化装奖。

A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of the Rose". From actors perspectives to the ideas used by the director to produce an impeccable international epic adaptation of Umberto Eco's best selling novel, the film presents the obstacles behind the creation of a production of such large scale and also the making of the many difficult scenes, most of the ones presented here are the characters' murders inside the mysterious abbey. Written by Rodrigo Amaro

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.