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Critic Ian Nathan
rated 6

It’s implausible and outrageously comic, but equally memorable and passionate. Worth seeing.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Noel Murray
rated 8

...Verhoeven makes Black Book into a rollicking wartime movie-movie, replacing awards-bait clichés with a strong dose of two-fisted action, frank sexuality, and coal-black cynicism.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Jacob Ludvigsen
rated 7

Verhoevens karakteristiske brutalitet klæder filmen, der derved ikke bliver for overdrevent sentimental i sin ellers ufravigeligt melodramatiske facon.

Read full review at Cinemazone
KA
rated 5

Sitter igjen med blandede følelser etter å ha sett denne filmen . Kjempeomtale på imdb, men for meg fungerte den ikke. Eller jo, den var bra på en måte, men likevel inneholder den flere scener med svært liten troverdighet. Dessuten synes jeg den &...

1 year ago

Cast & Crew

Paul Verhoeven
Director
Paul Verhoeven
Director
Waldemar Kobus
As Günther Franken
Sebastian Koch
As Ludwig Müntze
Frank Lammers
As Kees

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In 1944, Dutch-Jewish singer Rachel Stein is hiding in the occupied Netherlands. When the farmhouse where she had been hiding is destroyed by an Allied bomber, she goes to see a lawyer named Smaal, who had been helping her family. He arranges for her to escape to the liberated southern part of the country. Aided by a man named Van Gein, Rachel is reunited with her family and boards a boat that is to take them and other refugees to the south. They are ambushed by the German SS, who kill them and rob the bodies of valuables. Rachel alone survives, but does not manage to escape from occupied territory. Using a non-Jewish alias, Ellis de Vries, Rachel becomes involved with a resistance group in The Hague, under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers and working closely with a doctor, Hans Akkermans. Smaal is in touch with this Resistance cell. When Kuipers's son and other members of the Resistance are captured, Ellis agrees to help by seducing local SD commander Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze. During a party at SD headquarters, Ellis recognises Obersturmführer Günther Franken, Müntze's brutal deputy, as the officer who had overseen the massacre on the boat. She obtains a job at the SD headquarters while falling in love with Müntze who, in contrast to Franken, is not abusive or sadistic. He realises that she is a Jew but does not care. 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Black Book was released in theaters on May 18, 2007.