Sean Connery (William of Baskerville), F. Murray Abraham (Bernardo Gui), Christian Slater (Adso of Melk), Helmut Qualtinger (Remigio da Varagine), Elya Baskin (Severinus), Michael Lonsdale (The Abbot), Volker Prechtel (Malachia) more..., Feodor Chaliapin Jr. (Jorge de Burgos), William Hickey (Ubertino da Casale), Michael Habeck (Berengar), Urs Althaus (Venantius), Valentina Vargas (The Girl), Ron Perlman (Salvatore), Leopoldo Trieste (Michele da Cesena), Lars Bodin-Jorgensen (Adelmo), Giordano Falzoni (Papal Envoy), Franco Valobra (Jerome of Kaffa), Vernon Dobtcheff (Hugh of Newcastle), Donald O'Brien (Pietro d'Assisi), Andrew Birkin (Cuthbert of Winchester), Lucien Bodard (Cardinal Bertrand), Peter Berling (Jean d'Anneaux), Pete Lancaster (Bishop of Alborea), Franco Adducci (Monk), Niko Brücher (Monk), Aristide Caporale (Monk), Fabio Carfora (Monk), Francesco Scali (Monk), Peter Clös (Monk), Mario Diano (Monk), Franco Pistoni (Monk), Maria Tedeschi (Monk), Valerio Isidori (Monk), Luigi Leoni (Monk), Armando Marra (Monk), Ludger Pistor (Monk), Franco Diogene (Papal Visitor), Dwight Weist (Adso as an Old Man/the Narrator (Voice))

Bernd Eichinger (Producer), Celestia Fox (Casting), Mali Finn (Casting Assistant), Gabriella Pescucci (Costume Design), James Horner (Original Music Composer), Umberto Eco (Writer), Andrew Birkin (Screenplay) more..., Gérard Brach (Screenplay), Howard Franklin (Screenplay), Alain Godard (Screenplay), Jake Eberts (Executive Producer), Thomas Schühly (Executive Producer), Tonino Delli Colli (Director of Photography), Jane Seitz (Editor), Frank Jahn (Sound Designer), Dante Ferretti (Production Design), Franco Cristaldi (Producer), Alexandre Mnouchkine (Producer), Antonio Scaramuzza (Camera Operator), David Rubin (Casting), Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration), Ilona Herman (Makeup Artist), Esther Walz (Wardrobe Coordinator), Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci (Camera Operator), Dominique Besnehard (Casting), Rainer Schaper (Art Direction), Hans Jürgen Schmelzle (Makeup Artist), Norbert Herzner (Sound Designer), Sabine Schroth (Casting), Giorgio Giovannini (Art Direction), Bernd Schaefers (Producer), Gianni Arduini (Casting), Umberto Dessena (Grip), Wolfgang Dell (Electrician), Friederike Mirus (Makeup Artist), Mario Tursi (Still Photographer), Alberto Emidi (Key Grip), Marco Sperduti (Focus Puller), Vittorio Contino (Generator Operator), Bruno Colanzi (Grip) and others.