Black Book

    Black Book
    2006

    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

    Recommendations

    • 100

      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.

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