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Black Book, also known by its original Dutch title Zwartboek, is a 2006 war, thriller, drama, and historical film directed by Paul Verhoeven. The screenplay was written by Gerard Soeteman and Verhoeven, with cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub and editing by Job ter Burg. The cast includes Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn. Anne Dudley composed the score, and Arjen Tuiten served as the make-up artist.
The narrative is set in the Netherlands during 1944 and World War II, though filming took place in Germany and London. The film was produced by Fu Works, AVRO, VIP Medienfonds 4, Clockwork Pictures, and Studio Babelsberg, with production countries including Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It has a runtime of 145 minutes and was released on September 14, 2006.
The film’s budget was 21000000, and it earned a box office revenue of 26768563. It received a rating of 7.7 from 83996 votes on IMDb and a vote average of 7.451 from 1242 votes on TMDb. Black Book was a participant in the 20th European Film Awards, where it was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress and the European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film.
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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.
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
Themes
- in love with enemy
- world war ii
- prosecution
- netherlands
- singer
- nazi occupation
- 1940s
- the hague
- dutch resistance
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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
- 1 September 2006 ( 2006-09-01 ) ( Venice ) 14 September 2006 ( 2006-09-14 ) (Netherlands)
- Running time
- 146 minutes
- Countries
- Netherlands Germany Belgium United Kingdom
- Languages
- Dutch German English Hebrew
- Budget
- $21 million
- Box office
- $27 million
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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
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Narrative location
- Netherlands
- Filming location
- London
- Duration
- 145
- FilmAffinity ID
- 939261
- Official website
- www.sonyclassics.com/blackbook
- Image
- Black Book 2005 film set.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- title
- Zwartboek
- Commons category
- Zwartboek (Black Book)
- film editor
- Job ter Burg
- Commons gallery
- Zwartboek (Black Book)
- capital cost
- 21000000
- box office
- 26768563
- make-up artist
- Arjen Tuiten
- set in period
- World War II
- described at URL
- filmwiki.nl/Zwartboek_(film)
- review score
- 71/100
- publication date
- 2011-11-27
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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