The Ninth Gate

Artisan Entertainment

CAST

  
Dean Corso.......................................JOHNNY DEPP
Boris Balkan..................................FRANK LANGELLA 
Liana Telfer.......................................LENA OLIN
The Girl..................................EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
Baroness Kessler.............................BARBARA JEFFORD
Victor Fargas....................................JACK TAYLOR
Liana's Bodyguard.................................TONY AMONI
Bernie...........................................JAMES RUSSO
Pablo and Pedro Ceniza.....................JOSE LOPEZ RODERO

A ROMAN POLANSKI FILM
Director/Producer.............................ROMAN POLANSKI
Executive Producers.........................WOLFGANG GLATTES
...............................................MICHEL CHEYKO
Written By.....................................ENRIQUE URBIZ
..............................................ROMAN POLANSKI
..............................................JOHN BROWNJOHN
Cinematographer................DARIUS KHONDJI, A.F.C.,A.S.C.
Production Designer............................HERVE DE LUZE
Costume Designer..............................ANTHONY POWELL
Composer......................................WOJCIECH KILAR

Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is highly skilled at his work-locating rare books for wealthy collectors - a position that requires dexterity, cultural expertise, nerves of steel ... and few scruples. Corso is hired by eminent book-lover and scholar of demonology, Boris Balkan. Corso's mission: to compare Balkan's newly acquired edition of the legendary manual of satanic invocation, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of the Shadows, with the two remaining copies located in Europe, and ascertain the authenticity of the three books. From New York to Toledo, Portugal to Paris, Corso immerses himself in a labyrinthfull of pitfalls and temptations, disturbing encounters, violence and mysterious deaths. Protected by an other-worldly creature and guided by a force more powerful than himself, the hunter solves one by one the mysteries of the dreaded book and discovers the real purpose of his mission. (Synopsis from the Press Kit)