The Ninth Gate

The Ninth Gate is a 1999 FrenchSpanishAmerican mystery thriller film directed, produced, and cowritten by Roman Polanski. The film is loosely based upon Arturo PrezRevertes 1993 novel The Club Dumas. The plot involves the search for a rare, ancient book that purportedly contains the secret to magically summoning the Devil. The premiere showing was at San Sebastin, Spain, onAugust 1999, a month before the 47th San Sebastian International Film Festival. It failed critically and commercially in North America reviewers claimed it was a lesser effort than Rosemarys Baby 1968, Polanskis bestknown supernatural film. Nonetheless, The Ninth Gate earned a worldwide gross of 58.4 million against amillion budget.

Balkans copy of The Nine Gates had previously belonged to Andrew Telfer Willy Holt, who committed suicide soon after selling the book to Balkan. Telfers widow Liana Lena Olin wants the book back, as Telfer originally bought the book for her. Liana seduces Corso, but she fails to reacquire her book. Meanwhile, Corsos business partner, Bernie Rothstein James Russo, with whom Corso had hidden the book, is murdered his corpse is posed in imitation of an engraving in The Nine Gates.Corso travels to Toledo, Spain, where book restorers the Ceniza brothers show him that three of the books engravings are signed LCF, which Corso understands to mean that Lucifer himself designed and cut them. Corso goes by train to Sintra, Portugal, to compare Victor Fargas Jack Taylor copy of The Nine Gates to Balkans. To his surprise, Corso discovers that the signature LCF is found in three different engravings in the Fargas copy, which vary in detail from their counterparts in the Balkan copy. The next morning a mysterious young woman identified only as the Girl Emmanuelle Seigner who appears to have been shadowing Corso since Balkan hired him, awakens Corso and leads him to Fargas house. There he finds the old man murdered and the LCFsigned engravings ripped out of his copy of The Nine Gates. ........

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