DRAMA MANIAC

Title : Black Book
Genres: Art/Foreign, Thriller and War
Release Date: April 4th, 2007 (limited)
Distributors: Sony Pictures Classics
U.S. Box Office: $4,398,392
Starring: Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, Thom Hoffman, Peter Blok, Derek DeLint
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

Synopsis :

In the scenes which bookend the film, a schoolteacher is shown living in 1950s Israel. By chance, she has encountered Ronnie, a wartime friend, who is now married and on a tourist package trip in Israel. The film flashes back to 1944, during World War II, and begins the story of Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten), a Jewish singer who lived in Berlin before the war and who was then living in hiding from the Nazi regime in the occupied Netherlands.

When the house that she has been hiding in is destroyed, Rachel visits a lawyer named Smaal (Dolf de Vries), who provides her with some of her father's money so that she can flee. Rachel is reunited with her family and tries to flee by boat with other Jews. The goal is to escape from the Nazi-occupied part of the Netherlands to the liberated southern part of the country. However, they are ambushed on the river by members of the German SS. Rachel survives, but does not manage to escape from occupied territory.