# Black Book (2006)

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**Original title**: *Zwartboek*
**Runtime**: 145 min
**Genres**: Drama, Thriller, War
**Directed by**: Paul Verhoeven
**Written by**: Paul Verhoeven, Gerard Soeteman
**Starring**: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Matthias Schoenaerts

> *To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dutch wetlands drowning in autumn. A collapsing attic, a child’s missing shoe.

She swims through canal blood to cross into a war that still burns in her bones, trading innocence for a German officer’s bed.

Verhoeven’s razor-wire morality play: eros as a land mine no one disarms carefully enough.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, paranoid, raw, tender

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