Synopsis
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
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Cast
- Carice van HoutenRachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
- Sebastian KochLudwig Müntze
- Thom HoffmanHans Akkermans
- Halina ReijnRonnie
- Waldemar KobusGünther Franken
- Matthias SchoenaertsJoop
- Theo MaassenPrison Guard with Baret
- Derek de LintGerben Kuipers
- Christian BerkelGeneral Käutner
- Dolf de VriesNotary Wim Smaal
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Premiere
Black Book is Verhoeven's best film since "RoboCop": audacious, smart, shamelessly entertaining. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
It succeeds on almost all fronts. The epic film is a high-octane adventure rooted in fact with a raft of arresting characters, big action sequences and twists and turns galore. - 88
Rolling Stone
Just for starters, no movie about the Dutch Resistance during World War II has any right to be this wildly entertaining, not to mention this provocative and potently erotic. - 88
ReelViews
Black Book possesses a taut, exciting script that throws surprises at the viewer on a regular basis. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
While Rachel's story is fiction, many of its incidents are rooted in historical events carefully researched by Soeteman and the film's briskly staged action and stunning reversals of fortune ensure that its two and a half hours fly by. - 88
USA Today
A hard-core war film with raw violence, intense action, graphic sexuality and a twisting plot that offers a series of surprises. - 80
Variety
Moves like an express train across almost 2½ hours without any sense of rush and with strong, empathetic characters etched en route. - 80
Village Voice
Black Book, which takes its title from a secret list of Dutch collaborators, is an impressively old-fashioned yet fashionably embittered movie.