The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Timing: 2:13 (133 min)

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Release date

1999-08-25

Country

Spain, France

Production

Canal+, TF1 Films Production, R.P. Productions, Orly Films, Bac Films, Vía Digital, Kino Visión, Origen Producciones Cinematograficas

Genre

Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Budget

$38 000 000

Revenue

$58 401 898

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Director

Roman Polanski

Actors

Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Barbara Jefford, Jack Taylor, José López Rodero, Tony Amoni, James Russo, Willy Holt
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Scenario

Producer

Roman Polanski, Michel Cheyko, Wolfgang Glattes, Mishka Cheyko

Operator

Darius Khondji

Composer

Wojciech Kilar

Artist

Audition

Howard Feuer

Editing

Hervé de Luze
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• The film is based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel 'The Dumas Club, or the Shadow of Richelieu' (El club Dumas o la sombra de Richelieu, 1993).
• The main character's name was changed. In Reverte's novel, he is called Lucas Corso. In Polanski's film, he became Dean Corso.
• In the novel, Liana Tellfer is a striking blonde with a curvaceous figure. Actress Lena Olin is a slender brunette, clearly not matching the book's original description.
• The pen Corso writes with is a limited-edition collector's item – a Montblanc Agatha Christie ballpoint pen.
• The cigarettes smoked by Liana Tellfer are called “Black Devils”.
• Dean Corso smokes Lucky Strike cigarettes.
• The booksellers Pablo and Pedro Senitz, whom Corso meets in Toledo, were played by one actor – José López Rodero. The little girl who bumps into Corso at the airport in Paris was played by Morgan, Roman Polanski’s daughter.
• In Pérez-Reverte's book, there are two plotlines that turn out to be unrelated. Polanski organically merged both lines into one in the screenplay. Before the film begins, the camera first flies through the nine gates during the opening credits.
• At the beginning of the film, we see a series of different opening gates – there are exactly nine of them.
• The booksellers Pablo and Pedro Senitz, whom Corso meets in Toledo, were played by one actor – José López Rodero. The little girl who encounters Corso at the airport in Paris was played by Morgan, Roman Polanski’s daughter.