Blackbook (2006, Netherlands)
Original / alternative title: Zwartboek
Categories: ambush movies resistance movies spy movies
BlackbookDirector: Paul Verhoeven
Czas: 145 minut
Laguages: Dutch / German
Original / alternative title: Zwartboek
Categories: ambush movies resistance movies spy movies
BlackbookDirector: Paul Verhoeven
Laguages: Dutch / German
Jewish girl risks her life to infiltrate the German SD headquarters to help the resistance.
Ellis de Vries, young Jewish girl, together with her family tries to flee Holland and get to Belgium, but Germans kill all the passengers on the barge they were traveling on. Ellis jumped to the see and when rescued joins the Dutch resistance. When she meets German officer her orders are to seduce him and this way get the access to informations so desperately needed by the resistance. She starts deadly game with Germans, who killed her family, and the possible double agents among the resistance. The stake in that game is her life.
Dutch movie presenting real events that took place during the German occupation of Holland in World War II (although parts of different stories were put together and created one long story). The plot is shown in very interesting and involving way, the characters are strong and complicated - all of this creates a stron war movie.
Our rating
7.2
Film value
8 / 10
Realism factor
4 / 5
Adventure factor
3 / 5
Historical accuracy
3 / 5
Paul Verhoeven
director
Paul Verhoeven
screenplay
Gerard Soeteman
screenplay
Carice van Houten
as Ellis de Vries
Sebastian Koch
as Ludwig Müntze
Waldemar Kobus
as Günther Franken
Thom Hoffman
as Hans Akkermans
Halina Reijn
as Ronnie
Marcel Musters
as Henk
In January 1945 Dutch teenager gets involved in the resistance activity - due to chain of events it is up to him to help a young British pilot, but this could mean death to his family and friends.
In occupied Holland owner of closed shipyard, Jaap van Leyden, has a chance to re-open his business under Nazi supervision, but he has to remember that local resistance members will watch his every step.
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