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7.5Israel, 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.
Released: 2006-09-14145 minDir: Paul VerhoevenDrama, Thriller, War
Cast
- Carice van Houten as Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
- Sebastian Koch as Ludwig Müntze
- Thom Hoffman as Hans Akkermans
- Halina Reijn as Ronnie
- Waldemar Kobus as Günther Franken
- Matthias Schoenaerts as Joop
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Key facts
- Dutch
- Zwartboek
- Directed by
- Paul Verhoeven
- Screenplay by
- Gerard Soeteman Paul Verhoeven
- Story by
- Gerard Soeteman
- Produced by
- Jeroen Beker San Fu Maltha Frans van Gestel Jens Meurer Teun Hilte
- Starring
- Carice van Houten Sebastian Koch Thom Hoffman Halina Reijn
- Cinematography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Edited by
- Job ter Burg James Herbert
- Music by
- Anne Dudley
- Production companies
- AVRO Clockwork Pictures ContentFilm International Egoli Tossell Film Fu Works Motion Investment Group Studio Babelsberg VIP 4 Medienfonds
- Distributed by
- A-Film Distribution (Netherlands) NFP Marketing & Distribution and Warner Bros. Pictures (Germany) Alternative Films (Belgium) Metro Tartan Distribution (United Kingdom)
- Release dates
Key dates
- Published
- 27 November 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 20th European Film Awards
- Genre
- historical film
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- Dutch
- Main subject
- Holocaust survivor
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Screenwriter
- Paul Verhoeven
- Composer
- Anne Dudley
- Cinematographer
Article
Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven. The film, credited as based on several true events and characters, stars Carice van Houten as a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. The cast also features Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn.
A co-production of the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, and the UK, it is the first film that Verhoeven made in his native Netherlands since The Fourth Man (1983). With a $21 million production budget, Black Book was the most expensive Dutch film ever made.