Directed by : Roman Polanski <br />Produced by : RP Productions, Artisan Entertainment <br />Genre: Fiction - Runtime: 2 h 12 min <br />French release: 25/08/1999 <br />Production year: 1999 <br /><br />Dean Corso's job is ultra-confidential, requires finesse, enormous culture, nerves of steel and no scruples. A successful hunter of rare books for rich collectors, he is hired by Boris Balkan, an eminent bibliophile with a passion for demonology, to track down the only two other copies of a legendary manual of satanic invocations, "The Eight Doors of the Kingdom of Shadows." The contract: compare them with the one in Balkan's possession, reputed to be the only one of its kind, and prove the authenticity of all three.<br /><br />More info: http://en.unifrance.org/movie/15965/the-ninth-gate
