History Film / BlackBook

* MsFanservice: Ellis/Rachel and Ronnie are shown nude. It's a Paul Verhoeven movie with a female main character so it's a given.

** [[spoiler: The man pretending to be a resistance member to lure Jews eager to leave occupied territory to their doom gets shot by the resistance when kidnapping him fails.]]

* AmericaWonWorldWarII: Averted. The Allies seen are either Canadian or British, who were actually assigned the job of advancing into the Netherlands and Northern Germany; the Americans advanced through Belgium, Northern France and then Rhineland. The only Americans seen are the B-17 bomber that drops its load on top of the house Rachel was staying at after it was hit by German flak.

Set in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII late 1944/early 1945]], during the last months of the Occupation of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, the story follows Rachel Stein (Creator/CariceVanHouten), a Jewish woman who, after her hiding place is bombed and her family is killed after being ambushed when trying to reach liberated territories, becomes involved with the resistance in The Hague. She dyes her hair blonde, changes her name to "Ellis de Vries" and seduces Ludwig Müntze (Creator/SebastianKoch), the Hauptsturmführer of the local Nazi security service, for spy purposes. This gets her an administrative job at the HQ, where she comes across the man responsible for killing her family.

Not to be confused with the {{Britcom}} ''Series/BlackBooks''.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Hans Akkermans' attempts to kill everyone from the resistance who might identify him as TheMole. He almost succeeds.]]

Set in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII late 1944/early 1945]], during the last months of the Occupation of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, the story follows Rachel Stein (Creator/CariceVanHouten), a Jewish woman who, after her hiding place is bombed and her family is killed after being ambushed when trying to reach liberated territory, becomes involved with the Hagueish resistance. She dyes her hair blonde, changes her name to Ellis de Vries and seduces Ludwig Müntze (Creator/SebastianKoch), the Hauptsturmführer of the local Nazi security service, for spy purposes. This gets her an administrative job at the HQ, where she comes across the man responsible for killing her family.

Following this is romance, more escape attempts, deception and betrayal, continuing even after the Allied tanks are rolling in and liberating the country.

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''Black Book'' (''Zwartboek'' in Dutch) is a 2006 Dutch film taking place in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII late [=1944/early=] 1945]], during the last months of the Occupation of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.

It tells the story of Rachel Stein (Creator/CariceVanHouten), a Jewish woman who, after her hiding place is bombed and her family is killed after being ambushed when trying to reach liberated territory, becomes involved with the Hagueish resistance. She dyes her hair blonde, changes her name to Ellis de Vries and seduces Ludwig Müntze (Creator/SebastianKoch), the Hauptsturmführer of the local Nazi security service, for spy purposes. This gets her an administrative job at the HQ, where she comes across the man responsible for killing her family.

This was Creator/PaulVerhoeven's first Dutch film after more than twenty years of Hollywood. It's a SpiritualAntithesis of sorts to his earlier war film ''Film/SoldierOfOrange''.

Not to be confused with ''Series/BlackBooks''.

* NiceHat: Joop's top hat, although he only wears it in a couple scenes.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The Dutch resistance driven by RevengeBeforeReason against the Nazis and the Dutch collaborators makes them NotSoDifferent from their occupiers when they enact their PayEvilUntoEvil, especially towards the LesCollaborateurs after Allied victory.

* NotSoDifferent: The way the Dutch treated their collaborator compatriots (or people said to be collaborators) immediately after the liberation was terribly harsh. They got called on it by Hans and an Allied military man and were made to leave.

* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: Muntze tries this on Franken, who slaughtered escaping Jews and took all of there possessions. This is perfectly legal in Nazi Germany, but Franken keeping the valuables to himself is a capital crime. Unfortunately the safe is empty, and Muntze is himself caught for working with the resistance.

It tells the story of Rachel Stein (Creator/CariceVanHouten), a Jewish woman who, after her hiding place got bombed and her family got killed after being ambushed when trying to reach liberated territory, becomes involved with the Hagueish resistance. She dyes her hair blonde, changes her name to Ellis de Vries and seduces Ludwig Müntze (Creator/SebastianKoch), the Hauptsturmführer of the local Nazi security service, for spy purposes. This gets her an administrative job at the HQ, where she comes across the man responsible for killing her family.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler:Dr. Akkermans is loosely based on the real-life French serial murderer Marcel Petiot, who killed Jews and other fugitives to take their belongings. Unlike Akkerman, Petiot had no connections with either the resistance or the Nazis. He just claimed to be part of an escape network that did not exist]].

It tells the story of Rachel Stein (Creator/CariceVanHouten), a Jewish woman who, after her hiding place got bombed and her family got killed after being ambushed when trying to reach liberated territory, becomes involved with the Hagueish resistance. She dyes her hair blonde, changes her name to Ellis de Vries and seduces the Hauptsturmführer of the local Nazi security service for spy purposes. This gets her an administrative job at the HQ, where she comes across the man responsible for killing her family.