Film

Black Book

2006 · 2h 25m · Drama · Thriller · War

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

IMDb

7.7

Rotten Tomatoes

77%

Metacritic

71

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.

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

• Paul VerhoevenDirector · Screenplay
• Gerard SoetemanScreenplay
• Frans van GestelProducer
• Jeroen BekerProducer
• Adrian PolitowskiProducer
• Nadia KhamlichiProducer
• Teun HilteProducer
• Jos van der LindenProducer
• San Fu MalthaProducer
• Jens MeurerProducer

Official Trailer

Release date

September 14, 2006

Status

Released

Original language

Dutch

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

R

Budget

$21,000,000

Revenue

$26,768,563

Genres

Drama, Thriller, War

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