text=Thriller - Netherlands, Germany, UK, 148 mins

BLACK BOOK marks director Paul Verhoeven*s return to European cinema in a tense and erotic thriller. Barely escaping a Nazi massacre in the fall of 1944, young and beautiful Rachel Steinn - a Jewish former revue star - joins the Dutch resistance. But this groupis soon shattered by betrayal and Rachel is falsely accused as the traitor. Ironically, the only man she can trust is the Head of the German Gestapo in Holland. Rachel has to track down the real traitor and take her revenge. It will not be sweet.

CAST: Carice van Houten, Halina Reijn, Thom Hoffman, Sebastian Koch, Christian Berkel, Waldemar Kobus
DIRECTOR: Paul Verhoeven
SCREENPLAY: Gerard Soeteman and Paul Verhoeven
DoP: Karl Walter Lindenlaub
PRODUCED BY:  Fu Works Productions/Amsterdam, Egoli Tossell Film/Berlin and Babelsberg, Studio Babelsberg/Potsdam, Clockwork Pictures/London, MIG/Brussels
SUPPORTED: MEDIENBOARD Berlin-Brandenburg, FFA German Federal Film Board, EURIMAGES
DISTRIBUTOR (D): NFP marketing and distribution