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The Ninth Gate

1999 film directed by Roman Polanski

Film · TMDB

6.5

A 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.

Released: 1999-08-25133 minDir: Roman PolanskiMystery, Thriller, Horror

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

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

6.7/10

208,262 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

44%

Metacritic

44/100

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

Key dates

Published: 10 March 2000

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Genre: supernatural film
Country of origin: Spain
Original language: Portuguese
Based on: The Club Dumas
Main subject: obsession
Director: Roman Polanski
Screenwriter: John Brownjohn
Composer: Wojciech Kilar
Producer: Roman Polanski

Article

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.