This thesis deals with the intersemiotic analysis between the novel Il nome della rosa and its film adaptation, The Name of the Rose. The thesis begins with the presentation of the terms and arguments principal for the intersemiotic analysis, such Radić 45 as the linguistic sign, signifier and signified, language and speech, the understanding of the historical development of semiotics and its differences from the field of linguistics. In the following section of the thesis the attention turns toward the historical development of the film analysis as well as film criticism that have developed in line with the growth of the film industry. The main part of the thesis focuses on the principal characteristics of both the novel and the film, analyzing different aspects such as; the concept of possible narrative worlds, the types of narration, different narrative levels, the figure of the narrator, the concept of focus and point of view, the linearity of literary language in comparison with the five main aspects of cinematic language, the problems of translation together with the different linguistic changes that occur as a result of the translation process, the temporal aspect, the sound aspect, the characters, and finally the ordering of the plot elements.