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14/09/2006 Drama, Thriller, War 2h 25m
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To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.

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.

  1. Paul Verhoeven

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Carice van Houten

    Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries

  2. Sebastian Koch

    Ludwig Müntze

  3. Thom Hoffman

    Hans Akkermans

  4. Halina Reijn

    Ronnie

  5. Waldemar Kobus

    Günther Franken

  6. Matthias Schoenaerts

    Joop

  7. Derek de Lint

    Gerben Kuipers

  8. Christian Berkel

    General Käutner

  9. Dolf de Vries

    Notary Wim Smaal

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A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2020-08-09
_**Carice van Houten plays a spy working for the Dutch Resistance during WW2**_

During the German occupation of Netherlands in WW2, a Jewess singer turned spy (Carice van Houten) gains access to the Gestapo headquarters to help the Dutch Resistance. Sebastian Koch plays a sympathetic German officer while Waldemar Kobus is on hand as the heavy. Thom Hoffman plays an agent for the Resistance.

“Black Book” (2006), aka “Zwartboek,” is a Euro WW2 film by Paul Verhoeven that balances drama, action, intrigue, romance and suspense. It’s reminiscent of contemporaneous flicks like “In...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Dutch

Budget
$21,000,000.00

Revenue
$26,768,563.00

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