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The Ninth Gate
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1999 film directed by Roman Polanski
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The Ninth Gate is a 1999 mystery and thriller film directed and produced by Roman Polanski. The screenplay was written by Enrique Urbizu, Roman Polanski, and John Brownjohn, based on a work by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The cast includes Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella, and Emmanuelle Seigner. Darius Khondji served as director of photography, while Wojciech Kilar composed the music. The film was produced by Canal+ and other companies, originating from France, the United States, and Spain.
Set in the 1990s, the narrative takes place in Paris, New York City, Toledo, and Portugal, which were also the primary filming locations. The movie runs for 133 minutes and was released on August 25, 1999, among other dates. It carries an R rating and features dialogue in Spanish, French, English, and Latin.
The film had a budget of 38,000,000 and earned 58,400,000 at the box office. It received mixed critical reception, with an IMDb rating of 6.7, a Metascore of 44, and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 44%. The Ninth Gate won two awards and received five nominations.
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Film · TMDB
6.5A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
Cast
- Johnny Depp as Dean Corso
- Frank Langella as Boris Balkan
- Lena Olin as Liana Telfer
- Emmanuelle Seigner as The Girl
- Barbara Jefford as Baroness Kessler
- Jack Taylor as Victor Fargas
Themes
- hotel
- new york city
- suicide
- library
- portugal
- obsession
- southern france
- investigation
- antiquary
- picture puzzle
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
208,262 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
44%
Metacritic
44/100
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Roman Polanski
- Screenplay by
- John Brownjohn Enrique Urbizu Roman Polanski
- Based on
- The Club Dumas , by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Produced by
- Roman Polanski
- Starring
- Johnny Depp Lena Olin Frank Langella James Russo Jack Taylor Emmanuelle Seigner
- Cinematography
- Darius Khondji
- Edited by
- Hervé de Luze
- Music by
- Wojciech Kilar
- Production companies
- Artisan Entertainment RP Productions Orly Films TF1 Films Production BAC Films Canal+ Kino Vision Origen Producciones Cinematograficas Vía Digital
- Distributed by
- BAC Films (France) Araba Films (Spain) Summit Entertainment (International)
- Release dates
- 25 August 1999 ( 1999-08-25 ) (France) 27 August 1999 ( 1999-08-27 ) (Spain)
- Running time
- 133 minutes
- Countries
- France Spain
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $38 million
- Box office
- $58.4 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 neo-noir horror thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. An international co-production between the United States, Portugal, France, and Spain, the film is loosely based upon Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1993 novel The Club Dumas. The film stars Johnny Depp as a dealer of rare books who is tasked with authenticating a 17th-century book that, if used correctly, can summon the Devil.
The premiere showing was at San Sebastián, Spain, on 25 August 1999, a month before the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival. Though critically and commercially unsuccessful in North America, where reviewers compared it unfavorably with Polanski's supernatural film Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Ninth Gate earned a worldwide gross of $58.4 million against a $38 million budget. It has since been described as a cult classic.
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