Black Book

Director Paul Verhoeven return to his Dutch roots with BLACK BOOK. Holland 1944 - The final years of the Second World War find the beautiful singer Rachel Stein (Carice Van Houten) taking refuge with the Tsjempkema family in rural Holland. Once a popular and wealthy singer, Rachel has been waiting out the war like many Jews in Europe, separated from her family and a moment away from being caught by the Gestapo.

“Hollywood-honed tech smarts and European character sensibilities mesh entertainingly in pacy WWII resistance thriller BLACK BOOK.” (Variety)

“An ambitious throwback to the days of rousing all-action wartime pictures in which an intrepid loner risks everything to fight a clearly defined enemy. It succeeds on almost all fronts.” (Hollywood Reporter)

“Paul Verhoeven' Black Book encompasses the best and very worst of its director's signature pulp brutalism, which means it's pretty much a hoot.” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times)