The Ninth Gate
Synopsis
Dean Corso's job is ultra-confidential, requires finesse, enormous culture, nerves of steel and no scruples. A successful hunter of rare books for rich collectors, he is hired by Boris Balkan, an eminent bibliophile with a passion for demonology, to track down the only two other copies of a legendary manual of satanic invocations, "The Eight Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows." The contract: compare them with the one in Balkan's possession, reputed to be the only one of its kind, and prove the authenticity of all three.
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Director (1)
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : RP Productions, Artisan Entertainment
- Co-productions : Orly Films, TF1 Films Production
- Foreign production company : Origen Producciones Cinematograficas
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (22)
- Executive Producer : Roman Polanski
- Screenwriters : Enrique Urbizu, John Brownjohn, Roman Polanski
- Director of Photography : Darius Khondji
- Music Composer : Wojciech Kilar
- Assistant directors : Michel Cheyko, David Campi-Lemaire, Javier Petit
- Editor : Hervé De Luze
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Marie Blondel
- Costume designer : Anthony Powell
- Line Producer : Michel Cheyko
- Co-producers : Iñaki Nunez Rozados, Alain Vannier
- Sound Assistant : Vincent Cosson
- Assistant Operators : Cendrine Dedise, André Chemetoff, David Nissen
- Camera operators : Jean Harnois, Patrick De Ranter, Jörg Widmer
- Press Attachés (film) : Jean-Pierre Vincent, Clotilde Lécuillier
- Sound Editor : Laurent Quaglio
- Assistant editors : Élise Fiévet, Béatrice Herminie, Christophe Pinel
- Continuity supervisor : Sylvette Baudrot
- Production Designer : Dean Tavoularis
- Foley artist : Nicolas Becker
- Stunt performer : Dominique Fouassier
- Artistic Director : Gérard Viard
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy
- Production language : English, French
- Coproducer countries : France, Spain, United States
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Spain, United States)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 25/08/1999
- Runtime : 2 h 12 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.964
- Visa issue date : 30/07/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby Digital
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About
After I made "Rosemary’s Baby," every sorcerer and witch in England and America tried to contact me. It just never stopped! No, what really interests me is science, technology and the advance of human knowledge. Esotericism is a wonderful source of inspiration for films, the theatre and literature but on a philosophical level it bores me stiff. I hope that comes out in the film, which for me was a chance to send up the supernatural and all those mages and sorcerers and imps.
Roman Polanski – Director, excerpt from the press folder
