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Volker Prechtel has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Name of the Rose.
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14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
Dir. Werner Herzog · With Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz
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