Black Book

Black Book

Drama • R • 2006 • 2 hr 25 min

7.0

7.7

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.

Starring

Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus

Directed By

Written By

Paul Verhoeven, Gerard Soeteman

Attributes

Dark Watch By Myself

Genre

Drama Thriller War Foreign

Release Date

May 18, 2007

User Reviews

This was pretty good until maybe 3/4's in and then it started getting a little ridiculous, the events became convoluted, far fetched

Excellent movie. Hard to believe it was done by Paul Vanderhoeven.

Desmond Noordermeer

A Hollywood like film about World War II. Great scenario with great twists.

Interesting movie, with a good plot and a lame ending

Everyone who loves this genre, will loves this movie.

This is the movie that made me fall in love with Carice van Houten.

A good tale of survival under the Nazi regime.

It's okay, it had some good parts and Carice was wonderful, but overall, it's forgettable.

A late nazisploitation with some enjoyable spy movie moments

It's rare to find films that actually have surprising twists - if you can handle subtitles you're in for a treat

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Ratings

7.0 – Based on 514 ratings

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