APRIL 11,
2007 --
"Black
Book"
We know that the Brits sent anti-communist Russian troops who fought with the
German army back to the Soviet Union. And we know that the CIA used former
Nazis during the Cold War.
Now, by means of Paul Verhoeven's "Black Book," about one Dutch-Jewish
woman's survival in Holland during the Nazi occupation, comes the suggestion
that a Canadian general in Holland permitted the German Army to carry out summary
execution of German troops ordered by German officers prior to V-E Day. Huh?
The movie opens with the advisory that it is inspired by actual events.
If so, may we please be given a list of footnotes for the twists of plot, the
escapes at the last milli-second?
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For LPR, "Black
Book" is another European movie that tells us where Hollywood
might look for some interesting screen actors.
The "Black Book" cast includes Sebastian Koch, as an SS officer,
who, as he did in "Lives of Others" plays a somehow sympathetic character
in the service of evil.
Also noteworthy are the performances of Thom Hoffman, Ms. Carice van Houten,
Deekde Lint, Mr. de Vries, Waldemar Kobus, Christian Berkel, Halini Reijn,
and Timothy Deenihan, who has one scene as a Canadian colonel dealing with
the enforceability of Germany military rulings on Germans.
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