Black Book
1NomDirected by Paul Verhoeven
Synopsis
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.
Awards
Details
- Released
- 14 September 2006
- Runtime
- 2h 25m
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writers
- Paul Verhoeven, Gerard Soeteman
- Budget
- $21,000,000
- Box office
- $26,768,563
- Countries
- Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Languages
- Dutch, German, English, Hebrew
- Production
- Fu Works, AVRO, VIP Medienfonds 4, Clockwork Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Motion Investment Group, Motel Films, Hector BV, ContentFilm International, Egoli Tossell Film
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Cast
Carice van Houten
Sebastian Koch
Thom Hoffman
Halina Reijn
Waldemar Kobus
Matthias Schoenaerts
Derek de Lint
Christian Berkel
Dolf de Vries
Peter Blok