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Angels & Demons

Year:
Duration:
138 min | 146 min (extended edition)
Genres:
Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.7
Director:
Ron Howard
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2009-05-15
Filming Locations: UCLA, Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $150,000,000
Opening Weekend: $46,204,168 (USA) (17 May 2009)
Gross: $133,375,846 (USA) (2 August 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
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Thure Lindhardt
Thure Lindhardt
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Tom Hanks
Robert Langdon
Ewan McGregor
Camerlengo Patrick McKenna
Ayelet Zurer
Vittoria Vetra
Stellan Skarsgård
Commander Richter
Pierfrancesco Favino
Inspector Olivetti
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Cardinal Strauss
David Pasquesi
Claudio Vincenzi
Cosimo Fusco
Father Simeon
Victor Alfieri
Lieutenant Valenti
Franklin Amobi
Cardinal Lamasse
Curt Lowens
Cardinal Ebner
Bob Yerkes
Cardinal Guidera
Marc Fiorini
Cardinal Baggia (as Marco Fiorini)
Carmen Argenziano
Father Silvano Bentivoglio
Howard Mungo
Cardinal Yoruba
Rance Howard
Cardinal Beck
Steve Franken
Cardinal Colbert
Gino Conforti
Cardinal Pugini
Richard Rosetti
Conclave Cardinal
Silvano Marchetto
Conclave Cardinal
Thomas Morris
Urs Weber
Jonas Fisch
Adrian Bachman
August Wittgenstein
Swiss Guardsman
Ben Bela Böhm
Swiss Guardsman
Paul Schmitz
Swiss Guardsman
Jeffrey Boehm
Swiss Guard Blue (as Jeff Boehm)
Xavier J. Nathan
Philippe
Steve Kehela
American Reporter
Ursula Brooks
British Reporter
Rashmi
British Reporter
Yan Cui
Chinese Reporter
Fritz Michel
French Reporter
Maria Cristina Heller
Italian Reporter
Rafael Petardi
Italian Reporter (as Pascal Petardi)
Yesenia Adame
Mexican Reporter
Kristof Konrad
Polish Reporter
Masasa Moyo
South African Reporter
Ed Francis Martin
South American Reporter (as Ed F. Martin)
Cheryl Howard
CERN Scientist
Endre Hules
CERN Scientist
Norbert Weisser
CERN Scientist
Shelby Zemanek
Little Girl in Square
Vanna Salviati
Protester
Raffi Di Blasio
Protester (as Raffaele Di Blasio)
Todd Schneider
Carabinieri
Roberto Donati
Carabinieri
Rocco Passafaro
Carabinieri
Emanuele Secci
Carabinieri
Anna Katarina
Docent
James Ritz
Tourist
Felipe Torres Urso
Tourist (as Felipe Torres)
Jose Acevedo
Italian Police (uncredited)
Roy Allen III
Cardinal (uncredited)
Tibor Ambra
Carabinieri Captain (uncredited)
Christine Ames
Vatican Nun (uncredited)
Victor of Aquitaine
Vatican Choir Member (uncredited)
Michael Ark
CNN Reporter (uncredited)
Carina Aviles
Reporter (uncredited)
John Bailey
Swiss Guard Blue (uncredited)
Jerred Berg
Stem Cell Protestor #2 (uncredited)
Sally Berman
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
Yuki Bird
Scientist (uncredited)
Anthony Bonaventura
Vatican Police (uncredited)
Robert Bradvica
Italian Boy (uncredited)
Michael Patrick Breen
Ukrainian General (uncredited)
Aidan Bristow
Conclave Priest #1
Christopher Casa
Tourist (uncredited)
Patrick Casa
Choirboy / Tourist (uncredited)
Pasquale Cassalia
Rai Reporter (uncredited)
Farouk Chakwa
Carabinieri (uncredited)
Bacha Chilaia
Carabinieri Sergeant (uncredited)
Jason Ciok
Matthew Choir Boy (uncredited)
Jimmy Clabots
Vatican Choir Member (uncredited)
Laura Mary Clarke
Vatican Mourner (uncredited)
Mark E. Clason
Vatican Choir Member (uncredited)
Tammy Colbert
Vatican Square Gypsy
Austin Michael Coleman
Young Funeral Mourner (uncredited)
Robert Corvin
U.S. Army General (uncredited)
Luca Costa
Fireman (uncredited)
Gina D'Acciaro
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
John Dardenne
Swiss Guard Multicolor (uncredited)
William "Will" Daubert
Priest (uncredited)
Shervin Davatgar
Arab Reporter (uncredited)
Blake Dawson
Italian Girl (uncredited)
Vincent De Paul
Vatican Pall Bearer (uncredited)
Calvin Dean
Choir Member #1 (uncredited)
David Dedinsky
Vatican Cardinal (uncredited)
Lea Deesing
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Norman Deesing
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Angelique Deuitch
Tourist (uncredited)
Paul DiVito
Priest (uncredited)
Brant Dorman
Swiss Guard Blue (uncredited)
Allen Dula
Vatican Police Officer (uncredited)
Liz Duran
Vatican Mouner (uncredited)
Matthew Earnest
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Peter Ettinger
Tourist With Backpack (uncredited)
Jonn Faircrest
Papal Photographer (uncredited)
Les Feltmate
Priest (uncredited)
Amanda Jane Fleming
Tourist (uncredited)
David Fletcher
Protestor #3 (uncredited)
Gregory George Frank
Protester (uncredited)
Harrison Freed
Tourist (uncredited)
Aaron Denius Garcia
Carabinieri (uncredited)
Nancy Gassner-Clayton
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
Justin Giddings
Vatican Choir Member (uncredited)
Phil Gold
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
Alan Gray
Greek Patriarch Priest (uncredited)
Marco Greco
Fireman (uncredited)
Roger Groh
Good Bishop (uncredited)
Nancy Guerriero
Vatican Nun (uncredited)
Andrew Hamilton
Swiss Gaurd Multicolored (uncredited)
Martin Harris
Polish Reporter (uncredited)
Miriam Harris
Mourner (uncredited)
Charlie Heydt
Swiss Guard (uncredited)
David Hill
Pantheon Tourist (uncredited)
Kei Hirayama
Scientist (uncredited)
Brett Hunt
Vatican Priest (uncredited)
Marco Infante
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Clark James
Vatican Policeman (uncredited)
Christopher Karl Johnson
Cardinal (uncredited)
Dave Johnson
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Gina Juliet
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
Andrea Kelley
Italian Teen (uncredited)
Slim Khezri
Vatican Square Gypsy
Sophiah Koikas
Tourist (uncredited)
Michael Laren
Vatican Choir Singer (uncredited)
Robert W. Laur
Vatican Choir Singer (uncredited)
Adrian Lee
Vatican Square Soloist (uncredited)
Waymond Lee
Vatican Square Tourist (uncredited)
David Michael Lewin
Mourner (uncredited)
Maynor Lopez
Carabinieri (uncredited)
Jon Lucero
Vatican Police Officer (uncredited)
Eder López
Italian Citizen (uncredited)
Julie Mabry
Protester in Vatican (uncredited)
Melissa Macedo
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Michelle Macedo
Italian Mourner (uncredited)
Les Mahoney
Hip Priest (uncredited)
Gary Mandarino
Mourner (uncredited)
Albert Marrero Jr.
News Camerman (uncredited)
Stephen Marrero
Priest (uncredited)
Debbie McAlister
Reporter (uncredited)
Sandra McCurdy
Italian Tourist (uncredited)
Anthony Molinari
Vatican Guard (uncredited)
Elsa Morales Myers
Tourist (uncredited)
Mary Morales
Vatican Square Soloist (uncredited)
Sauvion Morkunas
Flag-bearer (uncredited)
William Myers
Photographer (uncredited)
Justin Orton
Tourist (uncredited)
Amelia Pawlak
Italian Mourner / Nun (uncredited)
David Pearl
Priest (uncredited)
David Pryor
Mourner (uncredited)
Deep Rai
Roma Player (uncredited)
Paul Richard
Swissguard #4 (uncredited)
Louis Riviere
Carabinieri (uncredited)
Jarrod Robbins
Swiss Guardsman
Bertrand Roberson Jr.
Tourist (uncredited)
John Robert
Tourist with Hat (uncredited)
Adriana Roze
Vatican Square Singer (uncredited)
Franklin Ruehl
Mourner (uncredited)
Kelly Ryan
Protestor #4 (uncredited)
Dylan Saccoccio
Carabinieri (uncredited)
Frank Scozzari
Vatican Police Officer (uncredited)
Eric Shackelford
Vatican Gypsy (uncredited)
Keith Shawn
Vatican Tourist (uncredited)
Arne Starr
Vatican Priest (uncredited)
Matthew Thane
Italian Visitor (uncredited)
GJ Tiari
The Cryer (uncredited)
Nico Toffoli
Carabieniere Riot
Devin Toft
Carabinieri (uncredited)
James Tumminia
Vatican Priest (uncredited)
Ryan Van de Kamp Buchanan
The Swiss Guard (uncredited)
Ernie Ventry
Gypsy in Square (uncredited)
Damon Viola
Mourner (uncredited)
Shannon Watson
Swiss Guard (uncredited)
Jon Morgan Woodward
The American with the Sign (uncredited)
Allan Yates
Swiss Guard (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
The production had to build a scale replica of St. Peter's Square since Vatican officers banned the movie from being filmed in its grounds.
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The set for St. Peter's Square was re-dressed to serve as the Piazza Navona, home of the Fountain of the Four Rivers.
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As well as providing the voice over for the film's teaser trailer (using an American accent) Alfred Molina (who played Aringarosa in the previous movie The Da Vinci Code (2006)) provides the opening voice over for Angels & Demons (2009), this time in his native English accent.
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Goofs
Throughout, Langdon is asking which way a statue points. Even as a Professor of Symbology, he would have to ask because the orientation of church buildings varied throughout the times. In early times many church entrances faced East while this changed during the Medieval Era and from that time the apse was commonly placed towards East. So Langdon was not able to know the direction of the statues for sure. Also he has just got off an 8 hour flight and is in a strange city, it is likely that he is disorientated.
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The Galileo's booklet Langdon is examining in the Archives is called "Diagramma Veritatis" at the beginning but "Diagramma Della Verita" at the end, when Cardinal Straus is offering it to him.
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In the end scene, Professor Langdon makes the comment that there have been multiple Marks and Johns in Papal history. In reality, there has been only one Pope remotely named Mark (Marcus 18 January 336 7 October 336). While there have been multiple popes named Marcellus, they would not have been referred to as Mark.
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Quotes
Assassin: You know, when they call me, and they all call me, it is so important to them that I know what they ask is the Lord's will. Or Allah's or Yahweh's. And I suppose they're right. 'Cause if he was not vengeful, I would not exist, now would I?
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Cardinal Strauss: Religion is flawed because man is flawed.
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Robert Langdon: [upon learning that the new Pope chose the name of Luke] There's been many Marks and Johns, never a Luke.
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Faq
Q
How did the assassin get into the secured chamber?
A
After signing off with Vittoria, Bentivoglio left the secured chamber and went into his office. As Vittoria is approaching the security scan, she passes his open office door, scans her eye, finds the blood on her chin, and proceeds into the secured chamber, where she finds his eye lying on the floor. Horrified, she exits the chamber and goes into his office, where she finds his body. Thus, the method used by the assassin (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) was to kill Bentivoglio in his office, cut out his eye, and then use the eye to pass the retinal scan, thus obtaining entrance into the secured chamber in order to steal the antimatter. In fact, the assassin himself can be seen walking in the opposite direction as Vittoria heads down the hall to the secured chamber.
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What are the main differences between the novel and the film?
A
The book opens with the murderer branding Vetra with the Illuminati ambigram in the chest. It is followed by Robert dreaming he is at the pyramids of Gizeh, in the presence of an unknown young woman and an old man. He is roughly awakened by his phone ringing. The CERN scientist who gets murdered in the beginning of the film is called Silvano Bentivoglio, who is Vittoria Vetra's colleague only. In the book, his name is Leonardo Vetra, and he is both Vittoria's colleague and her adoptive father. Throughout the novel Vittoria has some flashbacks to her childhood, when father Silvano took her from the orphanage and introduced her to the world of science. In the book, there is no scene where the Large Hadron Collider is activated; the antimatter has already been created and stored. Reversely, in the movie, Langdon never visits CERN, but is directly flown to Vatican City.CERN director Maximilian Kohler, a sickly and wheelchair-bound man, is completely absent from the movie. He is described as a cold and unsympathetic person with nothing but contempt for religion. A flashback near the end of the book explains why: as he child, he suffered from a very painful illness, but his parents would not allow the doctors to treat him, assured by catholic priests that the illness was God's will. The doctors finally ignored the parents' wishes and saved the boy's life, although it left him handicapped. In the book, Kohler is the one who calls Langdon to the CERN complex in Geneva and shows him the dead body with the removed eye and Illuminati symbol burnt into it. Vittoria later joins them and confesses that she and her father had secretly started to produce antimatter, without Kohler knowing. Kohler eventually goes unconcious during a coughing fit, and gets hospitalized for the major part of the book.The plane that goes Mach 15 is completely absent in the film. It's the plane that takes Langdon from Harvard University to Geneva, and brings Langdon and Vittoria to Vatican City. Vittoria wears short pants in the novel which is frowned upon in the Vatican. In the film she wears long pants. Camerlengo Patrick McKenna is called Carlo Ventresca in the novel, where he is Italian. Likewise, Cardinal Mortati in the novel is Cardinal Strauss in the movie. Father Simeon appears in the movie but not in the book. The character of Richter was created for the movie. He is a combination of Olivetti, Kohler and Rocher in the novel, and has most of their actions and dialogue.In the book, Olivetti is the head of the Swiss Guard. In the movie Richter is head of the Swiss Guard. The Olivetti in the movie is a different character: he is head of the Vatican Police, and much kinder and helpful than Richter. In the novel, the assassin is Middle Eastern and calls himself 'the descendant of the Hassassin'. In the movie he's European. The Hassassin is an Illuminati believer in the novel. He also has a craving for sex with women. In the movie both of these are absent: he is a ruthless professional, with strong ethics, only interested in money (though he implies some religious believes). In the novel he delivers the threat to the Camerlengo, Olivetti, Vittoria and Robert personally over the phone, announcing the Illuminati's revenge for 'La Purga'. The Hassassin's contractor's name is Janus in the novel. In the movie, the name is only mentioned once and barely noticeable.Langdon is alone in the Vatican Archives in the novel when he gets locked in by the power going out. As he has no gun, he breaks the glass by just crashing the bookshelf into it. Robert suspects Captain Rocher, Olivetti's subordinate, of trying to kill him. Captain Rocher does not appear in the movie, his place in the story is largely taken by Richter instead; it is initially suggested in the movie that Richter may be responsible for the attempt on Langdon's life.The FIRE death is a little different. In the novel, Olivetti enters the church first and asks Langdon and Vetra to wait outside. When he does not repond to Robert and Vittoria's calls over the radio, they enter and find him with a broken neck. They try to save the cardinal, who is completely naked, but the Hassassin fires at Robert, who hides under an tipped-over sarcophagus, crushing the Hassassin's arm under it in the process. The Hassassin kidnaps Vittoria and leaves, assuming Robert will surely suffocate under the tightly sealed sarcophagus. Robert is freed just in time by firemen. He steals a car by 'threatening' to shoot the driver to get to the fourth Illuminati altar by himself. In the movie he is escorted by Police Officers.When arriving alone at the Four Rivers fountain in the novel, Robert notices the Hassassin's van is already parked next to it, waiting for the right time. He enters the fountain from the other side and holds the Hassassin at gunpoint. However, the Hassassin quickly throws cardinal Baggia's naked body into the fountain and gets the jump on Robert. Robert wounds him in the foot, but a fight ensues, in which Robert is held under water. He grabs an underwater air hose and fakes drowning until the Hassassin leaves him for dead. Robert tries to revive cardinal Baggia, but does not succeed. He derives the location of the Illuminati church himself from a clue in the fountain (instead of cardinal Baggia telling him as in the movie).Langdon makes his way to the Castle of Angels alone, only to find out that the door is locked and the wall is too high to climb. He enlists the help of the driver of a nearby newsvan to help him over the wall. Inside, he finds the Hassassin trying to rape Vittoria to celebrate his victory of killing all four Cardinals. Another fight with the Hassassin ensues. Vetra and Langdon finally succeed in killing the Hassassin together by pushing him off the balcony (not a car bomb that is rigged to blow by the Camerlengo).A complete subplot with two BBC news reporters is completely absent in the film. The Hassassin calls them and informs them of the killings, causing them to broadcast the news of the kidnapped cardinals live over the world. In the book, the Camerlengo orders them inside the Sistine Chapel and allows them to broadcast his statement to the cardinals live to the world. His desperate plea for religion and faith is longer and much more elaborate in the book, and includes a lengthy statement about the church having to "surrender to science", and the sentence "religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed" (spoken in the movie by Cardinal Strauss at the end).Late in the book, Maximilian Kohler wakes up in a hospital after his coughing attack. He retrieves and reads Vetra's diaries, and then goes to Vatican City to confront the Camerlengo (in the movie, Vittoria took them with her to Vatican City, and it is Richter who reads them and finds out the truth). When Robert and Vittoria learn of his arrival, their initial thought is that Kohler must be the Illuminati leader. Captain Rocher, however, was already told the truth about the Camerlengo by Kohler, and therefore allows Kohler into the Camerlengo's office. As Kohler and Rocher (Richter and Father Simeon in the movie) are shot down, a dying Kohler secretly gives Langdon a videotape he made of the whole Camerlengo conversation with a hidden camera, asking him to "Give it to the media" upon death.The Illuminati Diamond, the final brand iron which combines all four elements into one shape, and which is used on the Camerlengo, is completely absent from the film. The final brand in the movie consists of two key crosses. This image is what provides a clue to Robert as to where the antimatter cannister is hidden (Saint Peter's tomb). However, in the novel, after receiving the burn, the Camerlengo suddenly receives a vision from God, leading him to Saint Peter's tomb (of course, the Camerlengo simply knew where the bomb was, but ascribes his vision to a Divine intervention).In the book, both Langdon and the Camerlengo enter the helicopter with the antimatter. Robert is under the impression that the Camerlengo plans to throw the antimatter out in time so it will explode in mid-air. However, the Camerlengo locks the antimatter into a cargo box and jumps out of the helicopter with a parachute, apologizing to Robert that "it wasn't supposed to happen this way". Langdon makes a miraculous escape from the exploding helicopter by grabbing its windshield cover and jumping out. The cover manages to slow his descent just enough for him to survive a big splash into the Tiber river. He is rescued by personnel of a small nearby hospital. There he finds out what was on the video camera he had received from Kohler.In the novel, Langdon returns to the Sistine Chapel and shows the video of the Kohler and Camerlengo conversation to all the Cardinals. The video only has the Camerlengo confessing the murder of Leonardo Vetra; upon hearing this, the Camerlengo himself gives a lengthy justification of all his doings; he confesses his anger over the late Pope's decision to stimulate Vetra to go public with his antimatter work; he was infuriated even more upon hearing the Pope confess that he had once fathered a child. Assuming the Pope had broken his vow of celibacy, the Camerlengo had stormed out, and planned the murder of the Pope, handing the confiscated Illuminati brands to the Hassassin and ordering the deaths of the Preferiti. Upon hearing this confession, Cardinal Mortati responds with the revelation that the Camerlengo was, in fact, the late Pope's actual son. The Pope had once fallen in love with a nun, but they both wanted to keep their vow of celibacy to the Church, so they got a son through artificial insemination while staying virgins. The Pope felt a special gratitude towards science ever since, but he never got the chance to explain this to the infuriated Camerlengo. This - together with everything he has done - is what drives the Camerlengo to suicide. In the book, the Camerlengo immolates himself in front of everyone in St. Peter's Square; in the movie, it occurs inside the cathedral.Cardinal Mortati (Cardinal Strauss in the film) collects the Camerlengo's ashes in an urn, which he places into the late Pope's tomb. He himself gets elected Pope in the novel. It is also revealed that the Camerlengo was actually rightfully elected Pope right before Mortati through the "acclamation by admiration" (mentioned in the movie), for just a few minutes though.Langdon is given the Illuminati Diamond (not the Diagramma) in the novel at the end by the new Pope. Langdon and Vittoria fall for each other and end up having sex with each other. Their love relationship is absent in the movie.
Q
Is "Angels & Demons" based on a book?
A
Yes. Angels & Demons is a 2000 mystery novel by American writer Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code (2003). The novel was adapted for the movie by screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and subsequently rewritten by David Koepp.
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