Production Designer Dante Ferretti won several awards for a number of films. For The Name Of The Rose he won three. One from The Italian Syndicate Of Film Journalists 1987. One from the German Film Awards 1987 and one from the David Di Donatello Awards 1987.

What aspect ratio is the film presented in?

William of Baskerville:
We're very fortunate to have such snowy ground here. It is often the parchment on which the criminal unwillingly
writes his autograph. Now, what do you read from these footprints here?

Adso of Melk:
They're twice as deep as the others, Master.

William of Baskerville:
Good! And thus we may conclude...

Adso of Melk:
That the man was very heavy.

William of Baskerville:
Precisely! And why was
he very heavy?

Adso of Melk:
Because... he was very fat?

Voice of Adso:
(As an old Man)
I have never regretted my decision for I learned from my Master much that was wise and good and true. When at last we parted company, he presented me with his eyeglasses. I was still young - he said - but someday they would serve me well. And in fact, I'm wearing them now on my nose as I write these lines. Then he embraced me fondly - like a father - and sent me on my way. I never saw him again and know not what became of him, but I pray always that God received his soul and forgave the many little vanities to which he was driven by his intellectual pride. And yet, now that I'm an old, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet . . . .