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Black Book [Blu-ray]
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Format | Color, Dolby, NTSC, AC-3, Blu-ray, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Language | Dutch |
Runtime | 2 hours and 25 minutes |
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In the darkest days of World War II, Jewish fugitives attempt to escape occupied Holland -- only to face a Nazi ambush. Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) alone survives the attack and joins the Dutch Resistance to avenge her family. She soon confronts the ultimate test: she must infiltrate German headquarters by tempting Captain Ludwig Mÿntze (Sebastian Hoch). In the heat of passion, he uncovers her duplicity...but keeps her secret. Then Rachel's espionage reveals that a murderous traitor lurks within Resistance ranks. Unable to fully trust anyone, Rachel navigates a minefield of deception and becomes an enemy to both sides. Epic, passionate, breathtaking, Black Book relates an untold story of World War II where the distinctions between good and evil become blurred by the complexities of human nature.
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- Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : Dutch
- Product dimensions : 13.97 x 13.97 x 0.64 cm; 81.65 Grams
- Item Model Number : 3350190
- Media Format : Blu-ray, Color, NTSC, AC-3, Subtitled, Widescreen, Dolby
- Run time : 2 hours and 25 minutes
- Release date : 25 September 2007
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French, Hindi
- Language : Dutch (Dolby Digital 5.1), Dutch (PCM), English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B000TGCR4C
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: 16,902 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- 12,946 in Movies (Movies & TV)
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Break out performance by Carice Van Houten, subsequently super famous for being Melisandre in Game of Thrones. Also features Sebastian Koch from superb Stasi drama The Lives of Others. And the other star? Why the director of course, Paul Verhoevenenenenenenen. Bringing back his Hollywood smarts to his native Netherlands, and determined to make the film on location and in the European languages, with a European cast, and so he did. The most expensive film ever made in the Netherlands. One wonders whether people would freak out if it were made today, so squeamish people have become. What's to be squeamish about? Why the grisly portrait of rather inhuman human beings prepared to do anything to survive/enrich themselves, though it is the grotesque delirium of reprisals after the peace treaty that is likely to appal us most, in my opinion. Somehow the classy cinematography only makes the bestial behaviour more shocking, for don't we feel somehow like we ought to be safe and secure when the movie is expensively made? It's the full Hollywood treatment but without the desire to pander to the audience.
DVD has interviews, very frank ones (they are Dutch), with the director and the heroine. Carice says in hers that she feared the director, based upon his 1970s work, and that she would be going home in tears every day, but he was anything but nasty. In fact, she sounds by her own admission like she was the one who was a handful. Verhoeveneneenen has nothing but praise for her commitment. The interviews are in their own right fascinatingly different from the kind of puff one learns to expect from Hollywood types. That being said, my goodness but the Dutch are direct!
A terrific thriller, probably best experienced in the cinema because it has the full works of orchestral scoring and high spec production design, married to a frenzied story that makes the 140+minutes flash by excitingly but also exhaustingly. A novelisation also exists, but quite honestly a TV series would likely be the ideal form for what is otherwise an overwrought and remarkably pessimistic story of survival.
Recommended.


Below the surface, it's an old-fashioned war movie; it's not bad – quite entertaining and it doesn`t deserve some of the negative reviews on this page.
The standard UK DVD release has a 12-minute interview with the director and a 21- minute interview with Van Houten as extras; it is of course a Dutch film with Dutch/German/English/Yiddish dialogue and English subtitles where required.
3 ½ stars, ideally.


It arrived well packed and was in first class condition.
The video itself is just as advertised, disturbing.