Having revealed to the world Sharon Stone and her heroine, beautiful and dangerous, smart and insidious, sexy and murderous for men, the director of «Basic Instinct» Paul Verhoeven returned to his native Netherlands.
He bought the rights to Akunin’s «Azazel» and dreamed of turning to his favorite historical genre (after all, in Hollywood he shot futuristic films — «Total Recall», «Starship Troopers»). And now the appeal to history took place — in the «Black Book».
But in the center is again a beautiful and dangerous woman. A gifted singer, a Dutch Jewess in occupied Holland hides from the Nazis, joins the Resistance, changes her appearance and partly even her personality, charms a German officer, participates in a failed conspiracy, and exposes a traitor.
Verhoeven has created a deeply national action-thriller epic that tells about a page of history that is completely unknown to us. You simply cannot miss it.
Cast: Carice Van Houten, Tom Hoffman and others.