Johnny Depp	Dean Corso
Frank Langella	Boris Balkan
Lena Olin	Liana Telfer
Emmanuelle Seigner	The Girl
Barbara Jefford	Baroness Kessler
Jack Taylor	Victor Fargas
José López Rodero	Pablo & Pedro Ceniza/1st & 2nd Workmen (as Jose Lopez Rodero)
Tony Amoni	Liana's Bodyguard
James Russo	Bernie
Willy Holt	Andrew Telfer

Regisseur	Roman Polanski
Produzent	Roman Polanski
Autor	Arturo Pérez-Reverte John Brownjohn Roman Polanski

The horror of Roman Polanski is not about spectacle and shock but a goose-pimply sense of evil lurking just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of slightly unsettling characters. For a while it looks like The Ninth Gate, adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, might recapture the beautiful uneasiness of such masterpieces as Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby. A calm, almost sleepy Johnny Depp plays cynical, unscrupulous rare-book hunter Dean Corso, who's hired by demonologist Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to authenticate a rare volume that, legend has it, was cowritten by Lucifer himself. Dean leaves a Gothic looking New York (re-created in Europe by Polanski as a sinister city of shadows) for Portugal and Paris to compare Balkan's volume with the two copies known to be in existence and uncovers a mystery with unholy ramifications. He also finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that involves Balkan, a widow who will stop at nothing to retrieve Balkan's book (Lena Olin, who gleefully bites and claws her way through the part), and a mysterious guardian "angel" (Polanski's wife, Emmanuelle Seigner) who shadows his every step. The Ninth Gate is full of rumbling menace and deliciously unsettling imagery, but Polanski's languorous direction and purposefully vague story render a film that's eerie without every becoming thrilling. It's perpetually on the verge of becoming interesting--right up to its obscure final image. --Sean Axmaker

Details der Edition Audience Rating R (Restricted) Land Spain Sprache English Barcode 012236607472 Region 2 Kapitel 30 Erscheinungsdatum 18.07.2000 Verpackung Keep Case Bildformat 2.35:1 Tonspuren ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC] Layer Einseitig, dual layer Anzahl Disks/Bänder 1 Bonusmaterial Commentary with Director Roman Polanski Isolated Music Score Featurette Gallery Of Satanic Drawings Storyboard Selections Theatrical Trailers TV Spots Cast & Crew Information Production Notes Scene Access Interactive Menus

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