Additional information for Black Book (Zwartboek), which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 6, 2007. The film is being distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
16
Netherlands
R
USA
16
Switzerland
15
UK
VM14
Italy
M/16
Portugal
16
Argentina
18
South Korea
IIB
Hong Kong
16
Germany
14A
Canada
PG-12
Japan
MA
Australia
18
Spain
16
Brazil
M18
Singapore
18
Ireland
15
Norway
15
Sweden
R16
New Zealand
K-15
Finland
September 1, 2006
Italy
September 12, 2006
Netherlands
September 13, 2006
Canada
September 14, 2006
Netherlands
September 21, 2006
Netherlands Antilles
October 23, 2006
UK
November 29, 2006
Belgium
November 29, 2006
France
November 29, 2006
Switzerland
December 3, 2006
UK
December 9, 2006
USA
December 17, 2006
Indonesia
December 21, 2006
Israel
January 5, 2007
USA
January 18, 2007
Russia
January 19, 2007
Ireland
January 19, 2007
UK
February 1, 2007
Greece
February 2, 2007
Spain
February 9, 2007
Italy
February 9, 2007
Switzerland
February 22, 2007
Portugal
March 2, 2007
Poland
March 2, 2007
USA
March 15, 2007
Argentina
March 24, 2007
Japan
March 29, 2007
South Korea
April 4, 2007
USA
April 4, 2007
USA
April 4, 2007
USA
April 5, 2007
Thailand
April 13, 2007
Turkey
April 26, 2007
Hong Kong
May 6, 2007
Poland
May 10, 2007
Germany
May 10, 2007
Switzerland
May 11, 2007
Serbia and Montenegro
May 31, 2007
Czech Republic
June 22, 2007
Romania
July 5, 2007
Australia
July 13, 2007
Denmark
July 13, 2007
New Zealand
July 13, 2007
New Zealand
August 15, 2007
Austria
August 23, 2007
Argentina
September 13, 2007
Slovakia
September 21, 2007
Finland
October 24, 2007
Hungary
November 2, 2007
Mexico
November 7, 2007
Finland
November 14, 2007
Sweden
January 11, 2008
Brazil
April 30, 2008
Colombia
May 22, 2008
Singapore
September 19, 2008
Venezuela
December 5, 2008
Taiwan
February 3, 2009
China
To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.
At the Kibbutz Stein in Israel in 1956, school teacher Rachel (Clarice van Houten) is reunited with Ronnie (Halina Reijn), a friend from The Hague during World War II. After Ronnie leaves, Rachel reflects on her adventures during the final days of the war.
In 1944, Rachel hides from the Nazis in a farm in the Dutch countryside. In exchange for hiding her, they expect her to learn Bible verses. One day, a crippled Allied bomber drops its payload on the farmhouse, killing everyone except Rachel. Rob (Michiel Heisman), a young man from a neighboring farm, hides her in the family's greenhouse. That night, Van Gein (Peter Blok), a police officer, arrives to tell them that the Nazis know that Rachel is in the area and will hunt her down. He agrees to help Rachel and Rob escape to the Allied controlled southern part of Holland. Rachel visits her father's lawyer, Smaal (Dolf de Vries). He gives her enough money and jewels to live on for a year but warns her not to trust people so easily. Van Gein leads Rachel and Rob to a dock where other Jews wait to leave. Rachel is reunited with her parents and brother, who is recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Van Gein does not accompany the Jews on the boat trip. That evening, the boat is ambushed by a Nazi patrol boat. The Nazis immediately open fire; only Rachel survives the massacre. Before drifting down the river, she sees the Nazis loot the corpses.
Rachel is found by Resistance fighters who smuggle her into The Hague by disguising her as a typhoid victim and placing her in a coffin that if properly "sealed" has sizable air holes. She is taken to a soup kitchen run by another member of the Resistance, Gerben Keipers (Derek de Lint) and given the new name of Ellis de Vries. Eventually she is made a part of the Resistance's plans to smuggle in British guns and rations. The smugglers are led by Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman), an expert marksman. He and Ellis are to pose as husband and wife so the Nazis will not search their luggage on the train; the luggage is actually full of weaponry. But when the Nazi soldiers on the train clearly do intend to search all baggage, a new plan is needed. Ellis takes the bags and enters a private compartment occupied by SD Colonel Müntze (Sebastian Koch). The Nazis don't search Müntze's compartment. Ellis and Müntze are clearly attracted to each other and she accepts an offer to visit him at his office. Hans is clearly jealous.
A truck carrying the British guns crashes in front of the soup kitchen. Kuiper's son, Tim (Ronald Armbrust) was driving and is arrested by the Gestapo. While the others go into hiding, Ellis arranges a meeting with Müntze hoping that she can persuade him to release Tim. Knowing he is an avid stamp collector, she takes some rare Dutch stamps to him. He invites her to a Nazi party. There she sees SS commandant Günter Franken (Waldemar Kobus) and recognizes him as the Nazi who led the ambush against the refugee boat. Although she is sickened at his sight, she manages to sing at the party later. She and Müntze return to his suite to make love. He intuits that she is Jewish from her dyed blond hair but has fallen in love with her. She accepts a job in his office and begins work the following day. There she meets Ronnie, who is Franken's secretary/sex partner. Franken gives them a report indicating that Tim has confessed everything and is to be executed. But Müntze refuses to sign the execution order.
Ellis sees Smaal at Nazi headquarters and learns that he and Müntze have negotiated a cease fire -- if the Resistance ceases its attacks against the Nazis, the Nazis will cease its violence against civilians. However, when a hidden microphone placed by Ellis in Franken's office reveals that Franken and Van Gein have been working together to kill and rob Jews trying to escape into Allied territory, a controversy amongst the Resistance fighters ensues. Van Gein is heard to ask where Franken gets his information as to where the Jews are hiding, which Franken refuses to answer. Ellis wants vengeance for her family but Kuipers refuses to risk breaking the truce because his son will be killed. He betrays a level of anti-semitism when he asks if Jewish lives are any more important than Dutch lives. Behind Kuipers's back, Hans and several others agree to kidnap Van Gein and make it look like he went underground to protect himself. Hans tries to drug Van Gein with chloroform but it doesn't work because the medicine has past its expiration date. When Van Gein nearly escapes, they are forced to kill him and dump his body in the canal. That night, Müntze confronts Ellis about her participation in the Resistance.
Smaal procures the building plans for the Nazi headquarters from a friend at city hall; the building used to be a bank. A plan is devised to sneak into the building during a party in honor of Hitler's birthday. Using information given to him by Ellis, Müntze accuses Franken of hoarding property and valuables confiscated from Jews, a capital offense. When a search of Franken's safe comes up empty, Franken accuses Müntze of negotiating with terrorists -- the Resistance. Müntze is sentenced to death, and Franken announces that forty hostages will be executed in retaliation for the murder of Van Gein. The rescue effort will now be more complex, and Ellis insists that Müntze be one of those liberated because she is in love with him. That night, she leaves a coal chute door open for Hans and the others to enter, then goes to sing at the party. The Resistance members enter the building and free many of the prisoners. However, they are then ambushed by Nazi soldiers. Only Hans and one other Resistance member survive. Franken takes Ellis to his office and uses the hidden microphone, which he knows about, to make it seem like Ellis has been collaborating with him against the Resistance. Kuipers vows to kill her. But Franken already intends to, along with Müntze. That night, Ronnie uses her body as a diversion while another sympathetic soldier frees Ellis and Müntze from their cells.
A few days later, the Germans surrender and World War II (in Europe) ends. Ellis and Müntze make their way back to The Hague. They go to see Smaal, who they believe to be the one who had betrayed the Resistance fighters and Jews to Franken. He denies it and claims to have proof of the real culprit which he intends to take to the Canadian military government controlling the city. However, before he can do so, an unknown assailant kills Smaal and his wife. Resistance fighters trap Müntze and Ellis, although she takes Smaal's notebook. Franken attempts to escape by boat with the loot taken from the Jews but Hans kills him.
Because death warrants signed by the Nazis against their own officers are still in effect, Müntze is executed for his contact with Communists in the Resistance. Ellis is kept in a pen with other Dutch accused of collaborating with the Nazis. She and her fellow prisoners are brutalized. Hans, who is now considered a hero of the Resistance, finds her and takes her to his office. On the way, they distribute some chocolate bars to children. In his office, he shows her the money and valuables he took from Franken and reveals that Müntze was executed. Ellis breaks down in tears. Hans tells her that he is giving her a sedative but instead injects her with a massive amount of insulin. He was the traitor in the Resistance and feels he must kill Ellis to cover his tracks. But when he goes to his window to accept the cheers of an adoring crowd, Ellis wolfs down a chocolate bar to counteract the insulin and escapes with Smaal's black book.
She takes the evidence to Kuipers. They determine to find Hans, who is trying to escape the city with the Jewish money and valuables. They find him on a country road, using the same method that was used to smuggle Rachel into the Resistance -- the coffin. Although he offers to give some of the money to them, Kuipers and Ellis seal off his airholes and suffocate him to death. On the banks of the river, they debate what to do with the money.
In 1956, at the Kibbutz Stein, which was founded with the Jewish money, Rachel and her family disappear behind the fences as armed soldiers arrive to guard it from an unseen enemy.
Paul Verhoeven
Director(s)
Gerard Soeteman
Paul Verhoeven
Writer(s)
Graham Begg
executive producer
Jeroen Beker
producer
Jeremy Burdek
co-producer
Jamie Carmichael
executive producer
Regina Frankenberger
assistant producer: Egoli Tossell Film
Sara Giles
executive producer
Andreas Grosch
executive producer
Teun Hilte
producer
Nadia Khamlichi
co-producer
Micha Kovler
line producer: Israel
San Fu Maltha
producer
Jindra Markus
associate producer
Jens Meurer
producer
Henning Molfenter
executive producer
Marc Noyons
co-producer
Justine Paauw
co-producer
Adrian Politowski
co-producer
Laurette Schillings
assistant producer: Motel Films
Andreas Schmid
executive producer
Marcus Schöfer
executive producer
Jos van der Linden
line producer
Jos van der Linden
producer
Frans van Gestel
producer
Marc Wächter
production executive: Germany
Charlie Woebcken
executive producer (as Carl Woebcken)
Producer(s)
Anne Dudley
Composer(s)
Rachel Stein / Ellis de Vries
Carice van Houten
Ludwig Müntze
Sebastian Koch
Hans Akkermans
Thom Hoffman
Ronnie
Halina Reijn
Günther Franken
Waldemar Kobus
Gerben Kuipers
Derek de Lint
General Käutner
Christian Berkel
Notary Wim Smaal
Dolf de Vries
Van Gein
Peter Blok
Rob
Michiel Huisman
Tim Kuipers
Ronald Armbrust
Kees
Frank Lammers
Joop
Matthias Schoenaerts
Theo
Johnny de Mol
Maarten
Xander Straat
Mrs. Smaal
Diana Dobbelman
Anny
Rixt Leddy
Linda
Lidewij Mahler
Herman
Pieter Tiddens
Cas
Gijs Naber
Siem
Dirk Zeelenberg
David
Michiel de Jong
Driver Müntze
Jobst Schnibbe
Joseph
Boris Saran
Mr. Stein
Jack Vecht
Mrs. Stein
Jacqueline Blom
Brother Max
Seth Kamphuijs
Skipper Willi
Herman Boerman
Ronnie's husband
Skip Goeree
Mr. Tjepkema
Bert Luppes
Mrs. Tjepkema
Marisa Van Eyle
Stientje Tjepkema
Heleen Mineur
Jantje Tjepkema
Bas van der Horst
Children Tjepkema
Foeke Kolff
Children Tjepkema
Merel van Houts
Children Tjepkema
Charlotte Rinnooy Kan
Children Tjepkema
Maaike Kempeneers
Lady in Fur Coat
Janni Goslinga
Female Prison Guard
Wimie Wilhelm
Prison Guard with Baret
Theo Maassen
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Black Book
Germany
La lista negra
Mexico
A Espiã
Brazil
Black Book
Italy
Black book - El libro negro
Argentina
Czarna ksiega
Poland
El libro negro
Spain
Kara kitap
Turkey: Turkish title
Mavri lista
Greece
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.
In 1944, Rachel hides from the Nazis in a farm in the Dutch countryside. In exchange for hiding her, they expect her to learn Bible verses. One day, a crippled Allied bomber drops its payload on the farmhouse, killing everyone except Rachel. Rob (Michiel Heisman), a young man from a neighboring farm, hides her in the family's greenhouse. That night, Van Gein (Peter Blok), a police officer, arrives to tell them that the Nazis know that Rachel is in the area and will hunt her down. He agrees to help Rachel and Rob escape to the Allied controlled southern part of Holland. Rachel visits her father's lawyer, Smaal (Dolf de Vries). He gives her enough money and jewels to live on for a year but warns her not to trust people so easily. Van Gein leads Rachel and Rob to a dock where other Jews wait to leave. Rachel is reunited with her parents and brother, who is recovering from an emergency appendectomy. Van Gein does not accompany the Jews on the boat trip. That evening, the boat is ambushed by a Nazi patrol boat. The Nazis immediately open fire; only Rachel survives the massacre. Before drifting down the river, she sees the Nazis loot the corpses.
Rachel is found by Resistance fighters who smuggle her into The Hague by disguising her as a typhoid victim and placing her in a coffin that if properly "sealed" has sizable air holes. She is taken to a soup kitchen run by another member of the Resistance, Gerben Keipers (Derek de Lint) and given the new name of Ellis de Vries. Eventually she is made a part of the Resistance's plans to smuggle in British guns and rations. The smugglers are led by Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman), an expert marksman. He and Ellis are to pose as husband and wife so the Nazis will not search their luggage on the train; the luggage is actually full of weaponry. But when the Nazi soldiers on the train clearly do intend to search all baggage, a new plan is needed. Ellis takes the bags and enters a private compartment occupied by SD Colonel Müntze (Sebastian Koch). The Nazis don't search Müntze's compartment. Ellis and Müntze are clearly attracted to each other and she accepts an offer to visit him at his office. Hans is clearly jealous.
A truck carrying the British guns crashes in front of the soup kitchen. Kuiper's son, Tim (Ronald Armbrust) was driving and is arrested by the Gestapo. While the others go into hiding, Ellis arranges a meeting with Müntze hoping that she can persuade him to release Tim. Knowing he is an avid stamp collector, she takes some rare Dutch stamps to him. He invites her to a Nazi party. There she sees SS commandant Günter Franken (Waldemar Kobus) and recognizes him as the Nazi who led the ambush against the refugee boat. Although she is sickened at his sight, she manages to sing at the party later. She and Müntze return to his suite to make love. He intuits that she is Jewish from her dyed blond hair but has fallen in love with her. She accepts a job in his office and begins work the following day. There she meets Ronnie, who is Franken's secretary/sex partner. Franken gives them a report indicating that Tim has confessed everything and is to be executed. But Müntze refuses to sign the execution order.
Ellis sees Smaal at Nazi headquarters and learns that he and Müntze have negotiated a cease fire -- if the Resistance ceases its attacks against the Nazis, the Nazis will cease its violence against civilians. However, when a hidden microphone placed by Ellis in Franken's office reveals that Franken and Van Gein have been working together to kill and rob Jews trying to escape into Allied territory, a controversy amongst the Resistance fighters ensues. Van Gein is heard to ask where Franken gets his information as to where the Jews are hiding, which Franken refuses to answer. Ellis wants vengeance for her family but Kuipers refuses to risk breaking the truce because his son will be killed. He betrays a level of anti-semitism when he asks if Jewish lives are any more important than Dutch lives. Behind Kuipers's back, Hans and several others agree to kidnap Van Gein and make it look like he went underground to protect himself. Hans tries to drug Van Gein with chloroform but it doesn't work because the medicine has past its expiration date. When Van Gein nearly escapes, they are forced to kill him and dump his body in the canal. That night, Müntze confronts Ellis about her participation in the Resistance.
Smaal procures the building plans for the Nazi headquarters from a friend at city hall; the building used to be a bank. A plan is devised to sneak into the building during a party in honor of Hitler's birthday. Using information given to him by Ellis, Müntze accuses Franken of hoarding property and valuables confiscated from Jews, a capital offense. When a search of Franken's safe comes up empty, Franken accuses Müntze of negotiating with terrorists -- the Resistance. Müntze is sentenced to death, and Franken announces that forty hostages will be executed in retaliation for the murder of Van Gein. The rescue effort will now be more complex, and Ellis insists that Müntze be one of those liberated because she is in love with him. That night, she leaves a coal chute door open for Hans and the others to enter, then goes to sing at the party. The Resistance members enter the building and free many of the prisoners. However, they are then ambushed by Nazi soldiers. Only Hans and one other Resistance member survive. Franken takes Ellis to his office and uses the hidden microphone, which he knows about, to make it seem like Ellis has been collaborating with him against the Resistance. Kuipers vows to kill her. But Franken already intends to, along with Müntze. That night, Ronnie uses her body as a diversion while another sympathetic soldier frees Ellis and Müntze from their cells.
A few days later, the Germans surrender and World War II (in Europe) ends. Ellis and Müntze make their way back to The Hague. They go to see Smaal, who they believe to be the one who had betrayed the Resistance fighters and Jews to Franken. He denies it and claims to have proof of the real culprit which he intends to take to the Canadian military government controlling the city. However, before he can do so, an unknown assailant kills Smaal and his wife. Resistance fighters trap Müntze and Ellis, although she takes Smaal's notebook. Franken attempts to escape by boat with the loot taken from the Jews but Hans kills him.
Because death warrants signed by the Nazis against their own officers are still in effect, Müntze is executed for his contact with Communists in the Resistance. Ellis is kept in a pen with other Dutch accused of collaborating with the Nazis. She and her fellow prisoners are brutalized. Hans, who is now considered a hero of the Resistance, finds her and takes her to his office. On the way, they distribute some chocolate bars to children. In his office, he shows her the money and valuables he took from Franken and reveals that Müntze was executed. Ellis breaks down in tears. Hans tells her that he is giving her a sedative but instead injects her with a massive amount of insulin. He was the traitor in the Resistance and feels he must kill Ellis to cover his tracks. But when he goes to his window to accept the cheers of an adoring crowd, Ellis wolfs down a chocolate bar to counteract the insulin and escapes with Smaal's black book.
She takes the evidence to Kuipers. They determine to find Hans, who is trying to escape the city with the Jewish money and valuables. They find him on a country road, using the same method that was used to smuggle Rachel into the Resistance -- the coffin. Although he offers to give some of the money to them, Kuipers and Ellis seal off his airholes and suffocate him to death. On the banks of the river, they debate what to do with the money.
In 1956, at the Kibbutz Stein, which was founded with the Jewish money, Rachel and her family disappear behind the fences as armed soldiers arrive to guard it from an unseen enemy.
Director(s)
Paul Verhoeven
Writer(s)
executive producer
Jeroen Beker
producer
Jeremy Burdek
co-producer
Jamie Carmichael
executive producer
Regina Frankenberger
assistant producer: Egoli Tossell Film
Sara Giles
executive producer
Andreas Grosch
executive producer
Teun Hilte
producer
Nadia Khamlichi
co-producer
Micha Kovler
line producer: Israel
San Fu Maltha
producer
Jindra Markus
associate producer
Jens Meurer
producer
Henning Molfenter
executive producer
Marc Noyons
co-producer
Justine Paauw
co-producer
Adrian Politowski
co-producer
Laurette Schillings
assistant producer: Motel Films
Andreas Schmid
executive producer
Marcus Schöfer
executive producer
Jos van der Linden
line producer
Jos van der Linden
producer
Frans van Gestel
producer
Marc Wächter
production executive: Germany
Charlie Woebcken
executive producer (as Carl Woebcken)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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