Black Book
Zwartboek
2006, Film, 145 min, Drama, Thriller, War, Dutch, Belgium, MoviePedia score 74
To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.
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.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Cast
- Carice van Houten as Ellis de Vries
- Sebastian Koch as Ludwig Müntze
- Thom Hoffman as Hans Akkermans
- Halina Reijn as Ronnie
- Waldemar Kobus as Günther Franken
- Derek de Lint as Gerben Kuipers
- Christian Berkel as Gen. Käutner
- Dolf de Vries as Wim Smaal - Notary
- Peter Blok as Van Gein
- Michiel Huisman as Rob
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