- Rating: 6.90
- Year of issue: 2019
- Genres: Drama
- Countries: Germany, Italy
- Duration: 52 minutes
In 1327, Friar William from Baskerville, followed by the young novice Adso da Melk, reaches an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival in the abbey the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths. Based on Umberto Eco's bestseller.
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1. Episode 1
DescriptionAdso, a young German soldier who wishes to take his vows, meets William from Baskerville, a cultured and intelligent Franciscan monk, and decides to follow him. The two head to a Benedictine Abbey in the Alps, famous for its library, where a dispute will take place on the role of the Church and its wealth. Arrived at their destination, William and Adso discover that the abbey is in full commotion for the death of Adelmo, the miniaturist of the scriptorium: is it murder or suicide? -
2. Episode 2
DescriptionOn the order of Abbot Abbone, and while the dead continue to upset the life of the abbey, William asks the monks to try to shed light on the facts and all traces lead straight to the library, a sort of inaccessible maze of which only the librarian He knows the secrets. Meanwhile, the brutal inquisitor Bernardo Gui, directed to the abbey with his armed escort, performs a bloody massacre in a refuge of heretics Dolciniani exterminating the family of Anna, daughter of Dolcino and Margherita. -
3. Episode 3
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4. Episode 4
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5. Episode 5
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6. Episode 6
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7. Episode 7
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8. Episode 8