BLACK BOOK
synopsis
It is late Summer in 1944, and when the hiding place of beautiful Jewish singer Rachel Steinn is accidentally bombed by warplanes, she decides to join a group of Jewish refugees to make an escape into liberated Allied territory. The boat they are escaping on is intercepted by a German patrol and all the refugees are savagely murdered with only Rachel.
| international title: | Black Book |
| original title: | Zwartboek |
| country: | Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom |
| sales agent: | Content International |
| year: | 2006 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Paul Verhoeven |
| film run: | 135' |
| release date: | NL 14/09/2006, FR 29/11/2006, BE 29/11/2006, UK 19/01/2007, IT 26/01/2007, ES 09/02/2007, DK 09/03/2007 AT 10/05/2007 |
| screenplay: | Gerard Soeteman, Paul Verhoeven |
| cast: | Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Gijs Naber |
| cinematography by: | Karl Walter Lindenlaub |
| film editing: | Job ter Burg, Humphrey Dixon |
| art director: | Wilbert Van Dorp |
| costumes designer: | Yann Tax |
| music: | Anne Dudley |
| producer: | Paul Verhoeven |
| production: | Fu Works, Motel Films, Egoli Tossell Film, Studio Babelsberg, VIP Medien Fonds (DE), AVRO (NL), Clockwork Pictures (UK) |
| distributor: | A-Film Distribution, Pathé Distribution (FR), DNC (IT), Alternative Films (BE), Tartan Films (UK), Nordisk (DK), NFP (AT) |
