Black Book
To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.
- Drama
- Thriller
- War
Media
Overview
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.
Keywords
- 1940s
- world war ii
- singer
- prosecution
- netherlands
- nazi occupation
- in love with enemy
- the hague
- dutch resistance
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 14, 2006
- Original language
- Dutch
- Spoken languages
- Dutch, German, English, Hebrew
- Countries
- Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom, Netherlands
- Production
- Sony Pictures Classics,Studio Babelsberg,Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,FFA,Nederlands Fonds voor de Film,VIP Medienfonds 4,uFilm,Egoli Tossell Film,Motel Films,Motion Investment Group,Fu Works,Hector BV,Media Programme of the European Community,Euroimages Fund of the Council of Europe,VIP 4 Medienfonds,ContentFilm International,Clockwork Pictures,CoBo Fonds,AVRO
- Cast
- Carice van Houten,Sebastian Koch,Thom Hoffman,Halina Reijn,Waldemar Kobus,Matthias Schoenaerts,Derek de Lint,Christian Berkel,Dolf de Vries,Peter Blokand 49 more
- Director
- Paul Verhoeven
- Producer
- Frans van Gestel,Jeroen Beker,Marcus Schöfer,Andreas Schmid,Adrian Politowski,Nadia Khamlichi,Carl Woebcken,Teun Hilte,Jos van der Linden,San Fu Maltha,Jens Meurer
- Cinematography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Music
- Anne Dudley
- Budget
- $21,000,000
- Revenue
- $26,768,563
- IMDb
- tt0389557