Director: Roman Polanski
Novel: Arturo Perez-Reverte
Script: Roman Polanski, John Brownjohn, Enrique Urbizu
Photography: Darius Khondji
Editor: Hervé de Luze
Production Design: Dean Tavoularis
Casting: Howard Feuer
Music: Wojciech Kilar
Sound Editor: Laurent Quaglio
Principal Cast: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jack Taylor, José López Rodero, Tony Amoni, James Russo, Barbara Jefford
Producer: Roman Polanski
Co-Producers: Mark Allan, Antonio Cardenal, Iñaki Nuñez, Alain Vannier, Executive Producers: Michel Cheyko, Wolfgang Glattes, Associate Producer: Adam Kempton
Polanski demonstrates once again that he is a master of horror who relies less on effects than on setting a mood and providing insinuations. Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso, a specialist for rare books who is up to every trick – a sort of Philip Marlowe of the antiquarian profession. A rich client sends him on a search for three books for which, reportedly, the Devil in person has created a number of illustrations. The trip takes Corso to Spain, Portugal und France. Dreary bricks and mortar, libraries filled with Satanic verses, occult rituals in castles – Polanski tells a dark tale that makes one shiver, and indulges in a little irony towards all the occultism.