BLACK BOOK, “Zwartboek

Director: Paul Verhoeven
The Netherlands, 2006
Color
Dutch, German, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles
Length: 135 Min.
Thriller
Nudity

It is 1944, and much of The Netherlands remains under the heavy heel of German occupation.  A beautiful, Dutch Jewish cabaret singer joins the Resistance and infiltrates Nazi security headquarters in a major Dutch city.  Director Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct,” “Total Recall”) depicts a war-ravaged world where, for greed, some Resistance fighters shamelessly betray their comrades and some Nazis, acting out of character, risk their lives to save Dutch patriots.   This suspenseful and action-packed Verhoeven work, which will keep you on the edge of your seat until its finale, was the most commercially successful film in the long history of Dutch cinema