Black book [videorecording] / Fu Works ; Hector BV ; Motel Films ; AVRO Television ; Motion Investment Group ; Studio Babelsberg ; VIP 4 Medienfonds ; [in co-production with] Clockwork Pictures ; Egoli Tossell Film AG ; produced by Jeroen Beker, Teun Hilte, San Fu Maltha, Jens Meurer, Jos van der Linden, Frans van Gestel ; written by Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven ; directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]
ISBN: 1424851572
9781424851577
Description: 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Jewish women Netherlands Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Netherlands Drama.
Betrayal Netherlands Drama.
Man-woman relationships Netherlands Drama.
Mujeres Judías Países Bajos Teatro. bidex
Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945 Actividades clandestinas Paísas Bajos Teatro. bidex
Netherlands Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films Netherlands.
Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).
War films.
Thriller Feature. migfg
War Feature. migfg
Feature films. gsafd
Suspense films. gsafd
War films. gsafd
Credits: Director of photography, Karl Walter Lindenlaub ; editors, Job ter Burg, James Herbert ; music, Anne Dudley ; costume designer, Yan Tax ; production designer, Wilbert Van Dorp.
Performers: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint, Christian Berkel, Dolf de Vries, Peter Blok, Michiel Huisman.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: R; for some strong violence, graphic nudity, sexuality, and language.
Notes: Dutch dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2006.
Nederlands Film Festival, 2006: Golden Calf - Best Actress (Carice van Houten) ; Best Director (Paul Verhoeven) ; Best Film (San Fu Maltha, Jos van der Linden, Frans van Gestel, Jeroen Beker).
Summary: A young Jewish girl hides out from the Nazis during World War II in The Netherlands. After her hiding place is literally blown, she escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor. That same night, as she is hiding with the sailor, she is warned by the Dutch resistance that their hiding place has been located by the Germans. The next day they take off toward the liberated areas. That night the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. Rachel escapes and joins the resistance. Under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his headquarters to meet him again and gain his trust. He soons falls for her and she joins his office as a spy. But when someone within the resistance betrays her, she is now seen as an enemy betraying both sides. All that's left to do is run with the man she learned to love and find a way to prove her innocence by finding the real betrayer.
