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Black Book

Name: Black Book
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Released: 2006-09-14
Duration: 145 min
Rating: 7.449

★ 7,4 /10 (1,257 Votes)

2006 NL 145 min

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.

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Release date

14/09/2006

Votes

1,257

Popularity

4.8

To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.

Genres

Drama Thriller War

Status

Released

Original title

Zwartboek

Language

Runtime

145 min

Budget

$21,000,000

Revenue

$26,768,563

Carice van Houten

Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries

Sebastian Koch

Ludwig Müntze

Thom Hoffman

Hans Akkermans

Halina Reijn

Ronnie

Waldemar Kobus

Günther Franken

Matthias Schoenaerts

Joop

Derek de Lint

Gerben Kuipers

Christian Berkel

General Käutner

Dolf de Vries

Notary Wim Smaal

Peter Blok

Van Gein

Michiel Huisman

Rob

Ronald Armbrust

Tim Kuipers

Frank Lammers

Kees

Johnny de Mol

Theo

Xander Straat

Maarten

Diana Dobbelman

Mrs. Smaal

Rixt Leddy

Anny

Lidewij Mahler

Linda

Pieter Tiddens

Herman

Gijs Naber

Cas

Dirk Zeelenberg

Siem

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Michiel de Jong

David

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Jobst Schnibbe

Driver Müntze

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Boris Saran

Joseph

Jack Vecht

Mr. Stein

Jacqueline Blom

Mrs. Stein

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Seth Kamphuijs

Brother Max

Herman Boerman

Skipper Willi

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Skip Goeree

Ronnie's Husband

Bert Luppes

Mr. Tjepkema

Marisa van Eyle

Mrs. Tjepkema

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Heleen Mineur

Stientje Tjepkema

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Bas van der Horst

Jantje Tjepkema

Merel Pauw

Child Tjepkema

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Foeke Kolff

Child Tjepkema

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Charlotte Rinnooy Kan

Child Tjepkema

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Maaike Kempeneers

Child Tjepkema

Janni Goslinga

Lady in Fur Coat

Wimie Wilhelm

Female Prison Guard

Theo Maassen

Prison Guard with Baret

Tjebbo Gerritsma

Prison Guard with Accordion

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Timothy Deenihan

Canadian Colonel

Nolan Hemmings

British Intelligence Captain

Garrick Hagon

British General

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Ronald de Bruin

Dutch SD in Train #1

Menno van Beekum

Dutch SD in Train #2

Marcel Musters

Henk

Hugo Metsers

Shock Trooper

Rian Gerritsen

Drunken Woman in Prison #1

Susan Visser

Drunken Woman in Prison #2

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Maiko Kemper

Siegfried

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Carsten Sasse

German Sentry

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Liza de Weerd

Receptionist

Willem de Wolf

Property Man

Oded Menashe

Husband of Rachel Rosenthal-Steinn

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Roni Yedid

Daughter of Rachel Rosenthal-Steinn

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Tomer Agami

Son of Rachel Rosenthal-Steinn

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Gabriela Lewis

Tour Guide

Mike Reus

Officer Control post (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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_**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 “Inglourious Ba…

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Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book is one of the finest World War II thrillers I’ve seen. It is tense, beautifully photographed, and constantly keeps the audience off balance with shifting loyalties, betrayals, and moral ambiguity. Rather than dividing people neatly into heroes and villains, it presents a world where survival often demands impossible choices and where goodness and cruelty can exist side by side. At the heart of the film is Rachel Stein, a remarkable protagonist whose intelligence, resilience, and humanity anchor every twist in the story. She is never reduced to a symbol or an acti…

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