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Black Book

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20062h 25mDrama · Thriller · War
directed by Paul Verhoeven

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

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7.5 / 10
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7.7 / 10
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Synopsis

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.

Cast

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