The Name of the Rose, 1986. Starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Ron Perlman, F. Murray Abraham, and Valentina Vargas. SYNOPSIS:An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey. William of Baskerville has been called in to investigate the death of one of the monks ahead of a theological Church conference. and you look back at the previous two-or-so hours and realise how deliberately drawn out it was.