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Black Book (2006)

Black Book (2006)

Drama Thriller War

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

Release Date: 2006, September 14
Directors: Paul Verhoeven
Countries: Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Production: Fu Works, AVRO, VIP Medienfonds 4, Clockwork Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Motion Investment Group, Motel Films, Hector BV, ContentFilm International, Egoli Tossell Film
Cast: Garrick Hagon, Matthias Schoenaerts, Christian Berkel, Timothy Deenihan, Michiel Huisman, Sebastian Koch, Derek de Lint, Waldemar Kobus, Carice van Houten, Rian Gerritsen, Thom Hoffman, Wimie Wilhelm

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:

world war ii 1940s singer prosecution in love with enemy nazi occupation netherlands the hague dutch resistance