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Black Book

Film poster
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
Produced by Jeroen Beker
San Fu Maltha
Frans van Gestel
Jos van der Linden
Teun Hilte
Written by Gerard Soeteman
Paul Verhoeven
Starring Carice van Houten
Sebastian Koch
Thom Hoffman
Halina Reijn
Music by Anne Dudley
Cinematography Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editing by Job ter Burg
James Herbert
Distributed by A-Film
Release date(s) Flag of the Netherlands September 14, 2006
Flag of the United Kingdom January 19, 2007
Flag of the United States April 6, 2007
Flag of Germany May 10, 2007
World Premiere: September 1, 2006
(Venice Film Festival)
Running time 145 min.
Country  Netherlands
Language Dutch
English
German
Hebrew
Budget €17,800,000

Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 Second World War film directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn. The story is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. The film had its world premiere on September 1, 2006 at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on September 14, 2006 in the Netherlands.

The press in the Netherlands was divided about the film, but with three Golden Calves Black Book was the most awarded film at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. The international press responded positively to the film and especially to the performance of actress Carice van Houten. It was the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, but the film was not nominated.

At the time of its release, it was the most expensive Dutch film ever made, and also the Netherlands' most commercially successful, with that country's highest box office gross of 2006. By January 12, 2007 1,000,000 people had seen the film.

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[edit] Plot

In October 1956, Ronnie (Halina Reijn), a Dutch woman married to a Canadian minister of religion, is on a tourist package trip in Israel. On a kibbutz she bumps into a schoolteacher, Rachel Rosenthal, whom she realises she knew during the Second World War.

The film then flashes back to 1944, and begins the story of Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten), a Dutch Jewish singer who had lived in Berlin before the war and is now living in hiding from the Nazi regime in the occupied Netherlands.

Rachel Stein on the back of a bike

When the house that she has been hiding in is destroyed, Rachel manages to escape and visits a lawyer named Smaal (Dolf de Vries), who provides her with some of her father's money so that she can flee, helped by a member of the resistance named Van Gein (Peter Blok). Rachel is reunited with her family and tries to flee by boat through the Biesbosch with other Jews from the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands to the liberated southern part of the country. However, in a trap they are ambushed on the river by members of the German SS, who kill them and loot the bodies. Rachel alone survives, but she does not manage to escape from occupied territory.

She becomes involved with a resistance group in The Hague, under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers (Derek de Lint), assumes the non-Jewish alias of Ellis de Vries, and dyes her hair blonde. Working closely with physician and fellow resistance member Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman), she seduces local SD commander Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch) and obtains a job as a secretary at SD headquarters. There, Ellis recognizes Obersturmführer Günther Franken (Waldemar Kobus), Müntze's brutal deputy, as the SS officer who oversaw the massacre of her fleeing refugee party, and manages to plant a bug in his office. She falls in love with Müntze, who, in contrast to Franken, is not abusive or sadistic. He works out that she is a Jew, but does not care. She also becomes friends with her Dutch colleague Ronnie, who collaborates with the Germans, working for them, being sexually available to them (particularly Franken), and accepting stolen gifts from them.

Having worked out that it was Van Gein who betrayed Ellis, her family and the other Jews to the SS in return for a cut of the profits, some members of Ellis' resistance cell decide to abduct him in order to expose a suspected traitor in their midst. The plot goes wrong when Akkermans's chloroform fails to work, Van Gein fights back and is killed. Franken responds by planning to kill forty hostages, including most of the plotters, but Müntze, who realises the war is lost and has been negotiating with the resistance, cancels the order.

Müntze confronts Ellis as being a member of the resistance. She persuades him to search Franken's safe, which Ronnie had claimed contained the money, gold and jewels stolen from fleeing Jews (against SS regulations, since Franken is keeping the profits for himself). When a search of the safe by the commanding officer, Obergruppenführer Käutner (Christian Berkel), reveals nothing, the apparently angry and embarrassed Franken reveals that Müntze has been negotiating with Dutch resistance "terrorists" for a truce. Müntze is condemned to death and imprisoned, along with members of the resistance group who are to be shot as a reprisal for the killing of Van Gein. Ellis agrees to participate in a rescue attempt for the resistance prisoners only on the condition that they free Müntze too, and reluctantly the others agree. However, the attempt fails because their plan has been betrayed by the unknown insider, and all of the prisoners and rescuers, except Akkermans and another resister, are killed.

Ellis is subsequently arrested and jailed by the SD. It emerges that Franken has known about her and the bug all the time. He uses it to make the resistance group believe she is the Nazi collaborator, framing her for the catastrophic failure of the rescue operation. However, with Ronnie's help, she and Müntze escape and the two of them hide in the countryside.

When the country is liberated by the Allies, Franken attempts to escape by boat, but is killed by Akkermans. Ronnie, instead of being imprisoned and publicly shamed as a collaborator, latches on to the Canadian captain she subsequently marries. Suspecting Smaal is the traitor, Müntze and Ellis confront him, but he shows her the titular black book in which he had detailed all his dealings with the Jews he helped. He and his wife are then murdered by an unknown man. Müntze is arrested by the Canadians and Ellis is seized by the Dutch, who recognise her as a "collaborator", but not before she grabs the book. Müntze's former commanding officer, Käutner, now working with the Allies against the communists, convinces a Canadian colonel that an Allied occupation agreement allows the German military to discipline its own soldiers and Müntze is executed on the death warrant issued prior to the surrender as punishment for his negotiations with Ellis's resistance cell.

Ellis is held in a temporary "prison" for collaborators, but is rescued from public humiliation by Akkermans, now a colonel in the Dutch Army, who then tries to kill her with an overdose of insulin. She survives by eating a bar of chocolate to counteract the drug. It then emerges that Akkermans is the traitor responsible for the brutal death of her family at the hands of Franken and his Nazis. He has also murdered Smaal and Franken, taking all the money, gold and jewels stolen from the Jews.

Ellis proves her innocence to British intelligence and to the former resistance leader Gerben Kuipers by means of the black book, which shows that many Jews were brought to Akkermans for medical help just prior to their murders. Together, Ellis and Kuipers intercept the fleeing Akkermans, who is hiding in a coffin in a hearse which he has filled with stolen money, gold and jewels. Ellis seals the coffin's air vents, suffocating him.

The film then flashes forwards again to Israel and shows Rachel meeting her husband and two children and entering Kibbutz Stein, which a sign reveals was funded from recovered money stolen from Jews killed during the war. As the film ends, Israeli soldiers arrive to protect the kibbutz as the Suez Crisis begins.

[edit] Cast

Film set of Black Book in The Hague in 2005

[edit] Production

[edit] Writing

People in Eindhoven watching the allied forces enter the city following its liberation, similar to the depiction of the liberation in Black Book

After 20 years of film making in the United States, Paul Verhoeven returned to his homeland, the Netherlands, for the making of Black Book. The story for the film was written by Verhoeven and the screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, with whom he made successful films such as Turkish Delight (1973) and Soldier of Orange (1977). The two men had been working on the script for fifteen years,[1] but they only solved their problems with the story in the early 2000s, by changing the main character from male to female. According to Paul Verhoeven Black Book was born out of elements that did not fit in any of his earlier movies, and it can be seen as a supplement to his earlier film about World War II Soldier of Orange.[2]

Verhoeven has emphasized that the story does not show an obvious moral contrast between characters, for a theme of moral relativism:

“ In this movie, everything has a shade of grey. There are no people who are completely good and no people who are completely bad. It's like life. It's not very Hollywoodian.[3] ”

Black Book is not a true story, unlike Soldier of Orange, but Verhoeven states that many of the events are true.[4] As in the film, the German headquarters were in The Hague. In 1944 many Jews that tried to cross to liberated parts of the southern Netherlands were entrapped by Dutch policemen. As in the film, crossing attempts took place in the Biesbosch.[2] The events in the story are also related to the life of Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven was born in 1938 and he grew up in The Hague during the Second World War.[5]

[edit] Financing

The initial estimate of the budget for making Black Book was €12,000,000. According to film producer Rob Houwer, who worked with Paul Verhoeven on previous films, it was not possible to get the job done for that amount of money. San Fu Maltha produced the film together with three other producers. He tried to economize on different parts such as the scenes in Israel, that could have been left out without changing the plot, but this was not negotiable for Paul Verhoeven.[1]

Because of financing problems the filming did not start as planned in 2004 but was delayed until August 2005.[6][7] In this month it was announced that Black Book received about €2,000,000 support from the Publieke omroep, the CoBO Fund, and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.[8] There were also several foreign investors, which made the film a Belgian, British, and German coproduction. With a final estimated budget of €18,000,000 the film was the most expensive Dutch film ever, at the time of its release.[1]

In October 2006 twelve crew members and businessmen started a lawsuit in which they demanded the bankruptcy of Zwartboek Productie B.V., the legal entity founded for the film. Some of them were already waiting for more than a year to get their money, in total tens of thousands of euros. Production company Fu Works settled the case and promised to pay the creditors.[9]

[edit] Filming

A 'bunker' is built around the entrance of an underground car park at the film set of Black Book

The shooting of the film was delayed in 2004 due to financial problems[6] and Paul Verhoeven's health issues.[10] Because of the delay there was a lawsuit regarding lead actress Carice van Houten, who had agreed to act in a play. When van Houten was forced to return to the set, the theater company sued over the costly delay to their own production. The outcome of the lawsuit was that the production company had to pay €60,000 for her unavailability.[11]

The shooting of the film took place from August 24 until December 19, 2005[12] on locations in the Netherlands, including Hardenberg, Giethoorn, The Hague and Dordrecht, and in Israel. In the opening scene a real pre-war farm was blown up in the municipality of Hardenberg. The farm had already been declared uninhabitable and ready to be demolished.[13] Some underwater explosions were filmed in a lake near Giethoorn.[14] In the center of The Hague they built bunkers to cover up modern day objects such as the entrance to an underground car park.[15] Great attention to detail was paid in the film. Several stage props were reproduced from the 1940s, such as signs, posters and the black book itself.[16] Furthermore, in one of the liberation scenes in The Hague, as many as 1,100 or 1,200 extras appeared.[17]

During the shooting the general public were able to see making of scenes on their mobile phones and on the internet.[18]

[edit] Media based on the film

[edit] Novelization

Main article: Black Book (novel)

The screenplay by Paul Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman was turned into a thriller novel by Dutch writer Laurens Abbink Spaink. The book was published in September 2006 by Uitgeverij Podium, and contains photos and an afterword by Paul Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman. Laurens Abbink Spaink says about the book: "Black Book is a literary thriller. Its form is in between the typical American novelization, only describing what the camera sees, and a literary novel. The novelization adds something to the film. It gave Rachel Stein a past, memories and a house. In the film she did not have a personal space."[19]

[edit] Soundtrack

Main article: Black Book (soundtrack)

The soundtrack of the film was released on October 2, 2006 by Milan Records. The album contains four 1930s-1940s songs sung by actress Carice van Houten, as she also performed them as Rachel Stein in the film. Three of them are in German, one in English. The other tracks of the film score are written by Anne Dudley. The album was recorded in London and produced by Roger Dudley.[20]

[edit] Reception

The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 77% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 132 reviews.[21] Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 34 reviews.[22]

[edit] Premieres and festivals

Director Paul Verhoeven at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006, where Black Book received three Golden Calves

Black Book had its world premiere on September 1, 2006 in Venice, as part of the official selection of the Venice International Film Festival.[23] Here it was nominated for a Golden Lion and won the Young Cinema Award for best international film.[24] The film was also in the official selection of the 2006 Toronto Film Festival.

HRH The Prince of Orange and his wife HRH Princess Máxima attended the Dutch gala premiere of Black Book in The Hague on September 12, 2006. Other prominent guests at the premiere were mayor Wim Deetman, minister Hans Hoogervorst, minister Karla Peijs, and staatssecretaris Medy van der Laan.[25]

The film was nominated for four Golden Calves at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. It won in three categories: the Golden Calf for Best Actress (Carice van Houten), for Best Director (Paul Verhoeven), and for Best Film (San Fu Maltha). Black Book was the most awarded film of the 2006 festival.[26]

The United States premiere of Black Book was a gala screening at Palm Springs High School on January 5, 2007 during the Palm Springs International Film Festival.[27] On March 2, 2007, Black Book was the opening film of the Miami International Film Festival.[28]

The German premiere of Black Book was a gala screening at Zoo Palast in Berlin on May 9, 2007.

[edit] Critical reaction

Most of the Dutch press was not positive about the film. Dana Linsen writes in NRC Handelsblad: "In Black Book, Verhoeven does not focus on moral discourse but rather on human measure, and with the non-cynical approach of his female lead and of love he has given new colour to his work."[29] Belinda van de Graaf in Trouw writes: "Breathless we run along burning farms, ugly resistance fighters, pretty kraut whores, spies, traitors, and because the story has to go on the coincidences pile up until it makes you laugh. When Carice van Houten screams 'Will it never stop, then!' it is almost kitsch, and not surprisingly already a classic film quote."[30] She compares this film to Soldier of Orange and explains why this film is not a stereotypical war film: "The war adventure is no longer based on the male character of the type Rutger Hauer, with his machismo and testosterone, but the small fighter Carice van Houten".[30] Literary critic Jessica Durlacher, daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, describes the film in Vrij Nederland with the following comparison: "The reality of 1940–1945 as portrayed in Black Book compared to reality is like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas compared to the original in Paris."[31]

The international press however, wrote mainly positively about the film and specifically about the performance of Carice van Houten.[32] According to Jason Solomons in The Observer: "Black Book is great fun, an old-fashioned war movie in parts, but with deep undercurrents about fugitive Jews, the Resistance, collaborators and the messy politics of war. This being Verhoeven, there's lots of sex and a scene in which the extremely attractive star (Carice van Houten) dyes her pubic hair blond. That aside, hers is a star-making performance, putting even Scarlett [Johansson] in the shade."[33] In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Dirk Schümer says Carice van Houten is not only more beautiful, but also a better actress than Scarlett Johansson. Furthermore he writes in his review: "Europe's Hollywood can actually be better than the original. With his basic instinct sharpened in California, Verhoeven demonstrates here the cinema as a medium of individual tragedy."[34] Jacques Mandelbaum writes in his review in Le Monde: "This lesson about humanity and about fear can be situated in the wake of several rare masterpieces, that are solemnly confronted by this story"[35] where he compares Black Book with classics like The Great Dictator, To Be or Not to Be, and Monsieur Klein.

Time magazine's Richard Schickel named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #5, calling it a “dark, richly mounted film”. While Schickel saw the film as possibly “old-fashioned stylistically, and rather manipulative in its plotting”, he also saw “something deeply satisfying in the way it works out the fates of its troubled, yet believable characters.”[36]

[edit] Commercial success

Before the film was released, the rights for distribution had been sold to distributors in 52 countries.[37] According to the production company Fu Works these sales made the film Black Book the most commercially successful Dutch film production ever, at the time of its release.[38]

Black Book received a Golden Film (100,000 tickets sold) within a record breaking three days[39] and a Platinum Film (400,000 tickets sold) within three weeks after the Dutch premiere.[40] The film had its millionth visitor on January 12, 2007.[41]

Black Book had the highest box office gross for a Dutch film in 2006, coming third overall in 2006 in the Netherlands, after the American films Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and The Da Vinci Code.[42] As of 2006-12-31 the box office gross in the Netherlands was €6,953,118.[43]

[edit] Top ten lists

The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007.

[edit] List of nominations and awards

[edit] References

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  2. ^ a b De Wereld Draait Door - Paul Verhoeven talks about the film, September 7, 2006
  3. ^ Homeward bound in The Guardian
  4. ^ "The events are true, the story is not.", translated quote of Paul Verhoeven from 'Zwartboek' heeft geen ruimte voor subtiliteit in NRC Handelsblad.
  5. ^ Een beetje oorlog, best spannend
  6. ^ a b "Opnames Verhoevens Zwartboek uitgesteld". Filmfocus.nl. 2004-10-14. http://www.filmfocus.com/nieuws/6322-Opnames_Verhoevens_Zwartboek_uitgesteld.html. Retrieved on 2006-10-07.  (in Dutch)
  7. ^ "Shooting Paul Verhoevens Black Book will start end of August". Fu Works. http://www.fuworks.com/news.php?id=44. Retrieved on 2006-10-07. 
  8. ^ "Zwartboek en Alles is Liefde krijgen financiële steun" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 2005-08-30. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article24772501.ece. Retrieved on 2006-12-04. 
  9. ^ "Faillissement Zwartboek afgewend na schikking" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 2006-10-27. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article52277951.ece. Retrieved on 2006-12-04. 
  10. ^ "Paul Verhoeven ziek, opnamen Zwartboek uitgesteld" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 2004-10-27. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article15086681.ece. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  11. ^ "'Zwartboek' moet betalen" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 2006-02-03. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/32894281/_Zwartboek__moet_betalen.html. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  12. ^ "Business Data for Zwartboek". The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/business. Retrieved on 2006-12-04. 
  13. ^ "Verhoeven mag boerderij in Hardenberg opblazen" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. 2005-10-25. http://www.ad.nl/cultuurenshow/article46003.ece. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  14. ^ "Verhoeven krijgt toestemming voor explosies" (in Dutch). Trouw. 2005-09-24. http://archief.trouw.nl/artikel?REC=TR_ART_00045388. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
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  18. ^ Fu Works (2005-11-01). Opnames Zwartboek via Vodafone op mobiel. Press release. http://www.fuworks.com/news.php?id=49. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  19. ^ Van Baars, Laura (2006-09-15). "De ‘verboeking’ van Zwartboek" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. http://www.nrc.nl/media/article482829.ece. Retrieved on 2007-01-10. 
  20. ^ De Bruijn, Joep. "Review". www.geocities.com/filmscorevisions. Filmscore visions. http://www.geocities.com/filmscorevisions/annedudley-zwartboek.html. Retrieved on 2007-01-07. 
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  25. ^ "Zwartboek beleeft Nederlandse première" (in Dutch). De Telegraaf. 2006-09-12. http://www.telegraaf.nl/prive/article49837221.ece?rss. Retrieved on 2006-12-04. 
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  27. ^ "Black Book". Palm Springs International Film Festival. http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=12412&FID=29. Retrieved on 2007-01-08. 
  28. ^ Miami International Film Festival (2007-01-10) (PDF). Miami International Film Festival Announces 2007 Film Program. Press release. http://www.miamifilmfestival.com/releases/pdfs/MIFF%202007_Film%20Program_01-10-07.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-01-13. 
  29. ^ Linssen, Dana (2006-09-13). "'Zwartboek' walst grijs verleden uit" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/film/article480482.ece. Retrieved on 2006-10-05. 
  30. ^ a b Graaf, Belinda van de (2006-09-14). "Carice van Houten als kleine krachtpatser in Verhoevens ’Zwartboek’" (in Dutch). Trouw. http://archief.trouw.nl/artikel?REC=TR_ART_00141542. Retrieved on 2006-12-05. 
  31. ^ Durlacher, Jessica (2006-09-16). "Zwartboek liegt". Vrij Nederland (url is not the original source) . http://www.leefbaarrotterdam.com/lr/archief/archief13.html. Retrieved on 2006-10-07.  (in Dutch)
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  33. ^ Solomons, Jason (2006-09-03). "Water, water everywhere - and a flood of tears". The Observer. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1863687,00.html. Retrieved on 2006-10-07. 
  34. ^ Schümer, Dirk (2006-09-01). "Basisinstinkt: Paul Verhoevens „Schwarzbuch“ in Venedig" (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. http://www.faz.net/s/Rub8A25A66CA9514B9892E0074EDE4E5AFA/Doc~E4229221808F54307A87FD18872255E01~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html. Retrieved on 2006-10-07. 
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  51. ^ "Black Book official entry from the Netherlands for Best Foreign Language film". http://www.fuworks.com/news.php?id=61. Retrieved on 2006-10-05. 
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  53. ^ Nederlands Film Festival (2007-01-29). Eerste Diamanten Film voor Zwartboek. Press release. http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=122&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=177&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=103&cHash=81b66b95f4. Retrieved on 2007-02-02. 
  54. ^ a b Saturn Awards. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.

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Films directed by Paul Verhoeven
1970s
Business Is Business (1971) · Turkish Delight (1973) · Katie Tippel (1975) · Soldier of Orange (1977) · All Things Pass (1979)
1980s
Spetters (1980) · The Fourth Man (1983) · Flesh & Blood (1985) · RoboCop (1987)
1990s
Total Recall (1990) · Basic Instinct (1992) · Showgirls (1995) · Starship Troopers (1997)
2000s
Hollow Man (2000) · Black Book (2006)
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