Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Jul 28 3:54

"Ellis de Vries: "They're working off a list. Of Jews with money. They murder them." Gerben Kuipers: "How do you know all this?" Ellis de Vries: "Because I was set up myself! Because I've seen my entire family be slaughtered!" Dutch director Paul Verhoeven returns to his culture and heritage with Zwartboek (known more universally by its English title Black Book): this film is a passionate, invigorating war drama as well as an electrifying World War II espionage thriller. Verhoeven, who co-wrote the screenplay over the course of 20 years with collaborator Gerard Soeteman, illuminates a particularly overlooked aspect of WWII: the war in Holland, and the devastating effects of the Nazi soldiers. After Verhoeven spent several years directing Hollywood films such as Starship Troopers, To...Read more

Posted : 2 years ago at Oct 24 22:06

Amidst all the crappy movies available these days, I must say that this movie was most excellent in every way. Well, almost. Netherlands, WW2. Rachel Stein is a young Jewish singer, hiding from the Nazis. She gets a warning that her hiding place is located by Germans and must evacuate. Unfortunately the cross-over does not go well since all people aboard are killed, except Rachel who manages to escape and is rescued. After this, she joins the Resistance and is given a fake ID; her new name is now Ellis de Vries. Part of a Resistance plan goes wrong and she by chance meets an SS official, Muntze, on a train. She eventually gains his trust and is given a job in his office. But it is all part of a plan, for she is trying to finding the person who betrayed her family and the many other Je...Read more

Rating : 9/10