Directed by Ron Howard (2006)Stars: Tom Hanks. Audrey TautouGenre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller Taglines: Seek The Truth / Break The Codes

Author: Dan Brown (USA)Released: 2003

The story tells the investigation started by symbologist Robert Langdon and a good looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre's curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie's grandfather, and the corpse was founded with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receive a warning about the captain's real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation, that involves a supposedly heretic theory: Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene

were, in fact, a couple which give rise a daughter, named Sara. A millenarian sect called The Priory of Sion, has kept for centuries the secret of that matter. A masochist and kind of psychopath albino monk, Silas, an Opus Dei member, will chase Langdon and Sophie as well, in order to impede that they solve the mystery of Christ and Mary Magdalene, and also the real meaning and location of the Holy Grial. A passionate British researcher, will help Langdon in his quest, revealing them several symbolisms at Da Vinci's master work The Last Supper, traveling to mythical places in the UK, like The Church Temple, where is believed that a group of Templars Knights are buried, and Sir Isaac Newton's tomb at Westminster Abbey, where are located some of the main keys to solve the Holy Grial's mystery.

WHO’S WHO IN THE DA VINCI CODE?

1. Jacques Saunière 5. Sophie Neveu2. Sir Leigh Teabing 6. Marie Chauvel3. Robert Langdon 7. Silas4. Bishop Aringarosa 8. Bezu Fache

…………….……….………….. is the main protagonist of The Da Vinci Code. He is a respected professor at Harvard university. Together with Sophie, he unravels the mystery of the Jesus bloodline.

……………………….…………….. is the granddaughter of Jacques Sauniere, grandmaster of the Priory of Sion. She is revealed to be a part of the Jesus royal bloodline.

………………………..……….. is a grail researcher. In the film, he is portrayed by Ian McKellen.

…………………….. is an albino monk, a devotee of the Catholic organization Opus Dei, who practices severe corporal mortification. In the film, he was portrayed by Paul Bettany.

…………………………………….is the curator of the Louvre, head of the secret Priory of Sion and grandfather of Sophie Neveu. Before being murdered in the museum, he reveals false information to Silas about the Priory's keystone, which contains information about the true location of the Holy Grail. After being shot in the stomach, he uses the last minutes of his life to arrange a series of clues for his granddaughter to unravel the mystery of his death and preserve the secret kept by the Priory of Sion.

………………………..is the Guardian of the Rosslyn Trust, as well as the wife of Jacques Saunière and Sophie Neveu's grandmother. Believing that they had been targeted for assassination by the Church for knowing the powerful secret of the Priory of Sion, she and Saunière agreed that she and Sophie's brother should live secretly in Scotland.

………..…………. is an important man of the church. In the film, he is portrayed by Alfred Molina.

……………………………… is the police officer who follows Robert Langdom and Sophie Neveu. In the film, he is portrayed by Jean Reno.