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62-516: [REDACTED] Look up black book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Black Book , Black book or Blackbook may refer to: Film [ edit ] Black Book (film) , a 2006 Dutch thriller film by director Paul Verhoeven Black Book (soundtrack) , soundtrack of the 2006 film The Black Book (serial) , a 1929 American drama film serial The Black Book , alternative name for

124-577: A grimoire , the personal guide book to ritual kept by every practicing witch, or other text instructing in magic Black book, a slang term for a graffiti artist's notebook or sketchbook Black books, records of Lincoln's Inn , a barristers association in London The Black Book (album) See also [ edit ] Address book Black Book of the Admiralty , a collection of medieval maritime law Book of Negroes ,

186-444: A lawsuit in which they demanded the bankruptcy of Zwartboek Productie B.V. , the legal entity founded for the film. Some of them had already been waiting for more than a year to get their money, in total tens of thousands of euros. Production company Fu Works settled the case and promised to pay the creditors . The shooting of the film was delayed in 2004 due to financial problems and Paul Verhoeven's health problems. Because of

248-625: A 1783 list of the Black Loyalists, those African Americans who fought for the British Crown Liber Niger (disambiguation) , Latin for "Black Book" Il libro nero , 1951 novel by Giovanni Papini Little black book (disambiguation) Blue book (disambiguation) Green Book (disambiguation) Orange Book (disambiguation) Pink Book (disambiguation) Plum Book White book (disambiguation) Yellow Book (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

310-472: A 1990 novel by Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk The Black Book (Rankin novel) , a 1993 novel by Scottish writer Ian Rankin Black Book (novel) , a 2006 novel derived from the 2006 film Black Book The Black Book (Patterson novel) , a 2017 novel by James Patterson and David Ellis BlackBook , an arts and culture magazine Manuscripts [ edit ] Black Book of Carmarthen , one of

372-428: A 1999 book written by Robert Kurz The Black Book of Colonialism , a 2003 book documenting evils that it attributes to colonialism The Black Book of Communism , a 1997 book that catalogs crimes that it argues resulted from the pursuit of communism The Black Book of English Canada , a 2001 book detailing evils that it attributes to English-speaking Canada The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in

434-496: A 2008 book by Murat Bardakçı The Black Book , a catalog of American precancel stamps Black Book of Pushbacks , a 2020 book about abuse of migrants in the Balkans compiled by Border Violence Monitoring Network Graphics Programming Black Book , a 1997 book by Michael Abrash Creative writing [ edit ] The Black Book (Durrell novel) , a 1938 novel by Lawrence Durrell The Black Book (Pamuk novel) ,

496-529: A 76% "fresh" rating based on 160 reviews, with an average score of 7.1/10; the general consensus states: "A furious mix of sex, violence, and moral relativism, Black Book is shamelessly entertaining melodrama.". Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 71 out of 100, based on 34 reviews. According to Jason Solomons in The Observer : " Black Book is great fun, an old-fashioned war movie in parts, but with deep undercurrents about fugitive Jews,

558-747: A better actress than Scarlett Johansson . Furthermore, he writes in his review: "Europe's Hollywood can actually be better than the original. With his basic instinct sharpened in California, Verhoeven demonstrates here the cinema as a medium of individual tragedy." Jacques Mandelbaum writes in his review in Le Monde : "This lesson about humanity and about fear can be situated in the wake of several rare masterpieces, that are solemnly confronted by this story"; he also compares Black Book with classics like The Great Dictator , To Be or Not to Be , and Monsieur Klein . Richard Schickel of Time named

620-693: A book of magic in Latvian tradition Non-fiction [ edit ] The Black Book (list) , the list produced in 1940 of people to be arrested by the Gestapo following a planned Nazi invasion of Britain in the Second World War The Black Book (Morrison book) , a 1974 book by Toni Morrison The Black Book of Capitalism , a 1998 book that assigns blame for what it argues are historic repressions to capitalism The Black Book of Capitalism: A Farewell to Market Economy ,

682-629: A horizontal network of member groups. The members are NGOs, coo-ops, collectives and grassroots initiatives spread across the Western Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Members sit on an open assembly, and each contribute to various different working groups within BVMN. The following organization are named partners within the Border Violence Monitoring Network, but some partners choose to remain anonymous. The finances of

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744-468: A lawyer named Smaal who had been helping her family. He arranges for her to escape to the liberated southern part of the country. Aided by a man named Van Gein, Rachel is reunited with her family and boards a boat that is to take them and other refugees to the south. They are ambushed by the German SS who kill them and rob valuables from the bodies. Rachel alone survives but does not manage to escape from

806-518: A party at SD headquarters, Ellis recognises Obersturmführer Günther Franken, Müntze's brutal deputy, as the officer who had overseen the massacre on the boat. She obtains a job at the SD headquarters while falling in love with Müntze who, in contrast to Franken, is not abusive or sadistic. He realises that she is a Jew but does not care. Thanks to a hidden microphone that Ellis plants in Franken's office,

868-554: A shade of grey. There are no people who are completely good and no people who are completely bad. It's like life. It's not very Hollywoodian. Black Book is not a true story, unlike Soldier of Orange , but Verhoeven states that many of the events are true. As in the film, the German headquarters were in the Hague . In 1944 many Jews that tried to cross to liberated parts of the southern Netherlands were entrapped by Dutch policemen. As in

930-399: A truce. Müntze is imprisoned and condemned to death. The resistance plot to rescue their imprisoned members; Ellis agrees to cooperate only on the condition that they also free Müntze. The plan is betrayed and the rescuers find the prisoners' cells filled with German troops. Only Akkermans and one other man manage to flee. Ellis is arrested and taken to Franken's office. He knows about her and

992-465: Is a literary thriller. Its form is in between the typical American novelisation , only describing what the camera sees, and a literary novel. The novelisation adds something to the film. It gave Rachel Stein a past, memories and a house. In the film she did not have a personal space." The soundtrack was released on 2 October 2006 by Milan Records . The album contains four 1930s–1940s songs sung by Carice van Houten as she performed them as Rachel Stein in

1054-619: Is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. The film had its world premiere on 1 September 2006 at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on 14 September 2006 in the Netherlands. It is the first film that Verhoeven made in his native Netherlands since The Fourth Man , made in 1983 before he moved to

1116-407: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Black Book (film) Black Book ( Dutch : Zwartboek ) is a 2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven , and starring Carice van Houten , Sebastian Koch , Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn . The film, credited as based on several true events and characters,

1178-675: The Black Book of Pushbacks , a two-volume work that documents the experiences of 12,654 migrants who suffered from human rights violations while traveling on the Balkan route in the previous four years, in collaboration with the United Left group in the European Parliament . At the book launch, German MEP Cornelia Ernst called the incidents described in the book "reminiscent of brutal dictatorships" and said that she hopes

1240-694: The Inspector Rebus series Black Books , a British sitcom Blackbook - TV talk show focused on African Americans; created by WFIL-TV in Philadelphia between 1969-1971 Other uses [ edit ] Black Book (National Auto Research) , a vehicle appraisal service Black Book (gambling) , a nickname for a list of individuals blacklisted from casinos Black books of hours , Flemish illuminated manuscripts, created on black dyed vellum. Black Book (video game) , an adventure role-playing video game A traditional or Wiccan name for

1302-568: The Netherlands , including Hardenberg , Giethoorn , the Hague , Delft and Dordrecht , and in Israel , by Hocus Focus Films. In the opening scene a real pre-war farm was blown up in the municipality of Hardenberg . The farm had already been declared uninhabitable and ready to be demolished. Some underwater explosions were filmed in a lake near Giethoorn . In the centre of The Hague they built bunkers to cover up modern day objects such as

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1364-690: The Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. It won in three categories: the Golden Calf for Best Actress (Carice van Houten), for Best Director (Paul Verhoeven), and for Best Film (San Fu Maltha). Black Book was the most awarded film of the 2006 festival. The United States premiere of Black Book was a gala screening at Palm Springs High School on 5 January 2007 during the Palm Springs International Film Festival . On 2 March 2007, Black Book

1426-506: The 1949 American drama film Reign of Terror , set in the French Revolution The Black Book (2018 film) , a 2018 Portuguese film directed by Valeria Sarmiento The Black Book (2023 film) , a 2023 Nigerian film starring Richard Mofe-Damijo Literature [ edit ] A cyprianus ( Norwegian : Svarteboken ), a spell-book of Scandinavian tradition Melnā grāmata  [ lv ] ,

1488-403: The BVMN's report, the most common form of violence during pushbacks is beating or kicking migrants, including the use of dogs or attempted lynching. Use of electric weapons has been reported against 362 people. Thirty-seven percent of migrants reported being forced to undress, which almost doubled compared to 2019. In some cases, the migrants' clothes were burned so that they were forced back across

1550-551: The January shortlist. It was three times more expensive than any Dutch film ever made , and also the Netherlands' most commercially successful, with the country's highest box-office gross of 2006. In 2008, the Dutch public voted it the best Dutch film ever. In 1944, Dutch Jewish singer Rachel Stein is hiding in the occupied Netherlands . When the farmhouse where she had been hiding is destroyed by an Allied bomber, she goes to see

1612-472: The Nazi tried to escape. He shows her the valuables stolen from Jewish victims. When informed about Müntze's fate, Ellis goes into shock and Akkermans administers a tranquilliser which is in fact an overdose of insulin . Ellis, feeling dizzy, sees the bottle of insulin and survives by quickly eating a bar of chocolate. She realises then that Akkermans is the traitor who had collaborated with Franken and had killed

1674-473: The Resistance realises that Van Gein is the traitor who betrayed Rachel, her family, and the other Jews. Against Kuipers's orders, Akkermans decides to abduct Van Gein to expose him. Their attempt goes wrong, and Van Gein is killed. Franken responds by planning to kill 40 hostages, including most of the plotters but Müntze, who realises the war is lost and has been negotiating with the Resistance, countermands

1736-511: The Resistance, collaborators and the messy politics of war. This being Verhoeven, there's lots of sex and a scene in which the extremely attractive star (Carice van Houten) bleaches her pubic hair. That aside, hers is a star-making performance, putting even Scarlett [Johansson] in the shade." In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Dirk Schümer says Carice van Houten is not only more beautiful, but also

1798-507: The Smaals. While Akkermans is distracted, waving to a crowd that cheers him, she jumps from the balcony into the crowd below and runs away. He tries to follow but is blocked by the crowd. Ellis proves her innocence to Canadian military intelligence and the former Resistance leader Gerben Kuipers through Smaal's black book, which lists how many Jews had been taken to Akkermans for medical help just prior to their murder. Ellis and Kuipers intercept

1860-720: The Sudan , a 2000 dissident publication The Black Book of Poland , a 1942 summary of the Nazi German atrocities in occupied Poland published by the Polish Ministry of Information The Black Book of Polish Jewry , a 1943 statement of the Association of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants from Poland on the Holocaust of Polish Jews The Black Book of Soviet Jewry , a 1944 compilation of documentary reports about

1922-705: The United States. The press in the Netherlands was positive; with three Golden Calves , Black Book won the most awards at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. The international press responded positively, as well, especially to the performance of Van Houten. It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language , and was the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, making

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1984-744: The actions of Nazis against Jews in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust Black Books (Jung) , a posthumous collection of Carl Jung's private journals published in October 2020 Berlin Black Book owned by Prince of Albania, compiled during World War I by Germany and allegedly containing long list of British perverts, described in the 1918 article by Harold Spencer published by Noel Pemberton-Billing Talaat Pasha's Black Book , or The Remaining Documents of Talaat Pasha ,

2046-462: The best films of 2007. Border Violence Monitoring Network In 2018, BVMN recorded video footage of pushbacks along the Croatian–Bosnian border, which was widely circulated online. In 2019, it reported 3,251 pushbacks either from Croatia to Bosnia and Herzegovina or from Greece to Turkey. To date, BVMN has documented over 1281 pushbacks from 16 countries. In December 2020, it published

2108-481: The book "will contribute to bringing an end to these crimes and holding the governments that are responsible accountable". In 2020, BVMN released a 51-page report into the use of torture or other inhuman treatment during pushbacks. This report was based upon 286 statements from migrants and refugee. Among the BVMN's findings is that in 2020, 90% of pushed-back migrants interviewed experienced "some form of degrading treatment or torture" from border guards. According to

2170-621: The border while naked, or they were detained while naked. Twenty-three percent of cases involved threats with firearms. Every month the Border Violence Monitoring Network publishes a report summarizing recent trends in pushbacks and other important developments. The report focuses on the situation in Greece and countries on the Balkan Route - analysing events all the way from Evros to the Slovenian-Italian border. BVMN works via

2232-683: The country is liberated by the Allies, Franken attempts to escape by boat but is killed by Akkermans, who takes the Jewish loot. Suspecting Smaal is the traitor, Müntze and Ellis return to confront him. Smaal states that the identity of the traitor is evidenced by his 'black book', in which he had detailed all his dealings with Jews. He refuses to discuss it further, wanting to go to the Canadian authorities. When they are about to leave, Smaal and his wife are killed by an unknown assailant. Müntze chases him into

2294-470: The defeated German military retains the right to punish its own soldiers. Due to the German death warrant, Müntze is executed by a firing squad. Ellis is imprisoned with accused collaborators, humiliated and tortured by the violently anti-Nazi volunteer jailers but rescued by Akkermans, who is now a colonel in the Dutch Army . Akkermans brings her to his medical office and says that he killed Franken when

2356-420: The delay there was a lawsuit regarding lead actress Carice van Houten, who had agreed to act in a play. When van Houten was forced to return to the set, the theater company sued over the costly delay to their own production. The outcome of the lawsuit was that the production company had to pay €60,000 for her unavailability. Principal photography took place from 24 August until 19 December 2005 on locations in

2418-529: The earliest surviving manuscripts written entirely in Welsh Yazidi Black Book , one of the two holy books of the Yazidi religion (Kurdish language) Black Book of Clanranald , on Clan history, literature and poems Television [ edit ] "The Black Book" ( Garfield and Friends ) , a 1989 episode of Garfield and Friends "The Black Book" ( Rebus ) , a 2006 episode in

2480-439: The early 2000s by changing the main character from male to female. According to Verhoeven, Black Book was born out of elements that did not fit in any of his earlier movies, and it can be seen as a supplement to his earlier film about World War II Soldier of Orange . Verhoeven has emphasised that the story does not show an obvious moral contrast between characters, for a theme of moral relativism: In this movie, everything has

2542-533: The entrance to an underground car park. The former chemistry faculty building of the Delft University of Technology was used to film prison scenes. Great attention to detail was paid in the film. Several stage props were reproduced from the 1940s, such as signs, posters and the black book itself. Furthermore, in one of the liberation scenes in The Hague, up to 1,200 extras appeared. During shooting,

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2604-505: The film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #5, calling it a "dark, richly mounted film". While Schickel saw the film as possibly "old-fashioned stylistically, and rather manipulative in its plotting", he also saw "something deeply satisfying in the way it works out the fates of its troubled, yet believable characters." Before the film was released, the rights for distribution had been sold to distributors in 52 countries. According to

2666-616: The film, crossing attempts took place in the Biesbosch . Events are related to the life of Verhoeven, who was born in 1938 and grew up in the Hague during the Second World War. The execution of Müntze by German firing squad after the war had ended echoes the notorious May 1945 German deserter execution incident . The initial estimate of the budget for making Black Book was € 12,000,000. According to film producer Rob Houwer , who worked with Paul Verhoeven on previous films, it

2728-744: The film. Three are in German, one in English. The other tracks are written by Anne Dudley . The album was recorded in London and produced by Roger Dudley . Black Book had its world premiere on 1 September 2006 in Venice , as part of the official selection of the Venice International Film Festival . Here it was nominated for a Golden Lion and won the Young Cinema Award for best international film. The film

2790-433: The fleeing Akkermans, hiding in a coffin in a hearse with the stolen money, gold, and jewels. They beat the driver, and while Kuipers drives the hearse, Ellis screws down the coffin's secret air vents. They drive to Hollands Diep where the original SS trap had been sprung and wait until Akkermans suffocates. Ellis and Kuipers wonder what to do with the stolen money and jewels. The scene changes to Israel in 1956, reprising

2852-441: The front of the kibbutz. After 20 years of filmmaking in the United States, Verhoeven returned to his homeland, the Netherlands, for the making of Black Book . The story was written by Verhoeven and screenwriter Gerard Soeteman , with whom he made successful films such as Turkish Delight (1973) and Soldier of Orange (1977). The two men had been working on the script for fifteen years, but they solved their story problems in

2914-462: The general public was able to see "making of" scenes on their mobile phones and on the internet. The story of the Jewish woman Rachel Stein in Zwartboek is based on Dutch resistant fighter Esmée van Eeghen . Van Gein was based on the lives of Ans van Dijk and Andries Riphagen. Notary Smaal is based on the unsolved murder of 65-year-old lawyer H. de Boer in The Hague on 30 May 1945 (shortly after

2976-554: The liberation). During the war, de Boer appeared to have maintained good contacts with the German Sicherheitsdienst . The screenplay by Paul Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman was turned into a thriller novel by Dutch writer Laurens Abbink Spaink. The book was published in September 2006 by Uitgeverij Podium and contains photos and an afterword by Verhoeven and Soeteman. Spaink says about the book: " Black Book

3038-401: The microphone and, knowing that the resistance members are listening, he stages a confrontation to make them believe that Ellis is the collaborator responsible for the failure of the rescue. Kuipers and his companions swear to make her pay for her treason. Ronnie, a Dutch woman working at the SD headquarters to whom Ellis had confided her role in the resistance, helps her and Müntze escape. When

3100-488: The occupied territory. Using a non-Jewish alias, Ellis de Vries, Rachel becomes involved with a resistance group in The Hague , under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers and working closely with a doctor, Hans Akkermans. Smaal is in touch with this Resistance cell. When Kuipers's son and other members of the Resistance are captured, Ellis agrees to help by seducing local SD commander Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze. During

3162-414: The opening scenes and shows Rachel meeting her husband and their two children, walking back into Kibbutz Stein, with a sign at the gate announcing that it was funded with recovered money from Jews killed during the war. In the final scene, the tranquillity of Rachel and her family is interrupted by explosions heard in the distance; the siren announces an air attack and Israeli soldiers position themselves at

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3224-452: The order. Müntze forces Ellis to tell him her story. On her evidence, he confronts Franken with a superior officer, Obergruppenführer Käutner, who orders Franken to open his safe, expecting to find the valuables stolen from the Jews he had killed, this being a capital offense. The safe contains no valuables and Franken then tells Käutner that Müntze has been negotiating with the resistance for

3286-411: The production company Fu Works these sales made the film Black Book commercially the most successful Dutch film production ever, at the time of its release. Black Book received a Golden Film (100,000 tickets sold) within a record-breaking three days and a Platinum Film (400,000 tickets sold) within three weeks after the Dutch premiere. The film had its millionth visitor on 12 January 2007 and

3348-466: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Black Book . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Book&oldid=1258874262 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Articles containing Norwegian-language text Short description

3410-708: The small fighter Carice van Houten". Literary critic Jessica Durlacher , daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, describes the film in Vrij Nederland with the following comparison: "The reality of 1940–1945 as portrayed in Black Book compared to reality is like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas compared to the original in Paris." The international press wrote positively about the film and specifically about van Houten. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports

3472-442: The story has to go on the coincidences pile up until it makes you laugh. When Carice van Houten screams 'Will it never stop, then!' it is almost kitsch, and not surprisingly already a classic film quote." She compares this film to Soldier of Orange and explains why this film is not a stereotypical war film: "The war adventure is no longer based on the male character of the type Rutger Hauer , with his machismo and testosterone, but

3534-465: The street, only to be recognised by the Dutch crowd and arrested by soldiers from the Canadian Army . The Dutch also recognise Ellis and arrest her as a collaborator but not before she grabs the black book. Müntze is brought before the Canadian officers and finds that Käutner is helping to keep order among the defeated German forces. Käutner convinces a Canadian colonel that under military law ,

3596-426: Was also in the official selection of the 2006 Toronto Film Festival . The Prince of Orange and his wife Princess Máxima attended the Dutch gala premiere of Black Book in the Hague on 12 September 2006. Other prominent guests at the premiere were mayor Wim Deetman , minister Hans Hoogervorst , minister Karla Peijs and state secretary Medy van der Laan . The film was nominated for four Golden Calves at

3658-692: Was announced that Black Book received about €2,000,000 support from the Netherlands Public Broadcasting , the CoBO Fund , and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science . There were also several foreign investors, which made the film a Belgian , British, and German coproduction . With a final estimated budget of €18,000,000, the film was the most expensive Dutch film ever, at the time of its release. In October 2006 twelve crew members and businessmen started

3720-496: Was not possible to get the job done for that amount of money. San Fu Maltha produced the film together with three other producers. He tried to economize on different parts such as the scenes in Israel, that could have been left out without changing the plot, but this was not negotiable for Paul Verhoeven. Because of financing problems, the filming did not start as planned in 2004 but was delayed until August 2005. In this month it

3782-542: Was the first film to receive a Diamond Film award. Black Book had the highest box office gross for a Dutch film in 2006, coming third overall in 2006 in the Netherlands, after the American films Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and The Da Vinci Code . As of 31 December 2006, the box office gross in the Netherlands was €6,953,118. The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of

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3844-873: Was the opening film of the Miami International Film Festival . The German premiere of Black Book was a gala screening at Zoo Palast in Berlin on 9 May 2007. Most of the Dutch press were positive about the film. Dana Linsen writes in NRC Handelsblad : "In Black Book , Verhoeven does not focus on moral discourse but rather on human measure, and with the non-cynical approach of his female lead and of love he has given new colour to his work." Belinda van de Graaf in Trouw writes: "Breathless we run along burning farms, ugly resistance fighters, pretty kraut whores, spies, traitors, and because

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