Black Book

The film begins and closes on a kibbutz on the shores of the Kinneret in 1956. Rachel, a Dutch immigrant, meets Roni, a friend from the past. In between, we find ourselves in a long flashback, beginning in September 1944, where Rachel, a young and beautiful Jewish singer, is in hiding with a Christian farming family. After surviving a bombing, she returns to her own family and together they try to reach the areas that have already been liberated by the Allies. But tragic circumstances force Rachel to remain in Nazi-occupied territory, join the underground, and risk her good name for a pure purpose - the war on the enemy.... After making several box-office hits in Holland during the 1970s and early 1980s, Paul Verhoeven crossed the Atlantic and went on to direct some of the greatest Hollywood hits of the 1980s and 90s - Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, among others. Black Book takes him back to his homeland and reconfirms his reputation as a master who knows how to advance story-lines at an electrifying pace and draw viewers in.