Black Book

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.

Release Date

Sep 14, 2006

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Paul Verhoeven

Original Title

Zwartboek

Country

Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Company

Fu Works, AVRO, VIP Medienfonds 4

Budget

$21,000,000

Revenue

$26,768,563