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Black Book (2006)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
“To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.”
Drama, Thriller, War · 2h 25m
Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
Cast
Carice van Houten
Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
Sebastian Koch
Ludwig Müntze
Thom Hoffman
Hans Akkermans
Halina Reijn
Ronnie
Waldemar Kobus
Günther Franken
Matthias Schoenaerts
Joop
Derek de Lint
Gerben Kuipers
Christian Berkel
General Käutner
Dolf de Vries
Notary Wim Smaal
Peter Blok
Van Gein
Michiel Huisman
Rob
Ronald Armbrust
Tim Kuipers
Crew
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Screenplay
- Paul Verhoeven, Gerard Soeteman
- Director of Photography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Original Music Composer
- Anne Dudley
- Editor
- Job ter Burg, James Herbert
- Producer
- Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker, Adrian Politowski, Nadia Khamlichi, Teun Hilte, Jos van der Linden, San Fu Maltha, Jens Meurer
Details
- Original title
- Zwartboek
- Release date
- 2006-09-14
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Original language
- NL
- Spoken languages
- Dutch, German, English, Hebrew
- Countries
- Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Production
- Fu Works, AVRO, VIP Medienfonds 4, Clockwork Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Motion Investment Group, Motel Films, Hector BV, ContentFilm International, Egoli Tossell Film
- Budget
- $21,000,000
- Box office
- $26,768,563