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* 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 LesCollaborateursafter LesCollaborateurs after Allied victory.
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* 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 enemy P.O.W.s after LesCollaborateursafter Allied victory.
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* ShamefulStrip: When Rachel is held prisoner by the Dutch resistance as punishment for sleeping with a Nazi, she is stripped naked as a form of humiliation.
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* ShockingSwerve: The identity of the mole does have some foreshadowing but feels completely inconsistent with a lot of earlier scenes, [[spoiler: such as Hans shooting Germans and being at risk himself during the jailbreak he tatted out, and talking as if he was killing Frankenstein on behalf of the resistance when there was no one around to put on an act for]].
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* ShcokingSwerve: The identity of the mole does have some foreshadowing but feels completely inconsistent with a lot of earlier scenes, [[spoiler: such as Hans shooting Germans and being at risk himself during the jailbreak he tatted out, and talking as if he was killing Frankenstein on behalf of the resistance when there was no one around to put on an act for]].
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* ShcokingSwerve: ShockingSwerve: The identity of the mole does have some foreshadowing but feels completely inconsistent with a lot of earlier scenes, [[spoiler: such as Hans shooting Germans and being at risk himself during the jailbreak he tatted out, and talking as if he was killing Frankenstein on behalf of the resistance when there was no one around to put on an act for]].
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* UndyingLoyalty: Munze's driver who helps [[spoiler:Him and Rachel escape the SS]].
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* FanService: Nudity from Ellis/Rachel and Ronnie. It's a Paul Verhoeven movie with a female main character so it's a given.
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* BreakTheHaughty: General Kautner is left visibly terrified, and desperate when [[spoiler: Muntze attacks and nearly strangles him to death after Kautner manages to get him sentenced to death]]/
* RulesLawyer: After being arrested Kautner manages to use the ExactWords of various British official orders to [[spoiler: Get Muntze executed]].
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* StoutStrength: Resistance Memeber Kees is a bit hefty, but a solid figure (although he's more likely to use a gun than physical force) and tries to drag Tim to safety when the jialbreak is broken up.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Kautner's working to get [[spoiler:Muntze executed]] has strong shades of this given that he is a prisoner of the Allies and is very clearly being investigated for war crimes by them. While his [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ultimate fate is unclear]], it's doubtful that he pulled off a KarmaHoudini.
* TakingYouWithMe: Kautner's working to get [[spoiler:Muntze executed]] has strong shades of this given that he is a prisoner of the Allies and is very clearly being investigated for war crimes by them. While his [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ultimate fate is unclear]], it's doubtful that he pulled off a KarmaHoudini.
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* BaldOfEvil: General Kautner, whose only redeeming quality is that he doesn't loot the corpses of the Jews ''he'' has killed.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: Kees is shot in the arm while trying to kidnap the collaborator Van Gein but Hans assures him that it's only a minor injury and Kees is back on his feet and fighting a couple days later.
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* AdolfHitlarious: At one point Hans puts on a fake hitler mustache to make a mocking speech mourning the collaborator Van Gein after the resistance kills him.
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* BackAlleyDoctor: [[spoiler: Dr. Hans Akkermans, seemingly]] one of the morally just, a doing-the-best-with-what's-available type rather than the skeevy, barely competent sort. Of course [[spoiler: it turns out Akkermans was selling information on his clients to the Germans.]]
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* BackAlleyDoctor: [[spoiler: Dr. Hans Akkermans, seemingly]] Akkermans is one of the morally just, a doing-the-best-with-what's-available type rather than the skeevy, barely competent sort. Of course [[spoiler: it turns out Akkermans was selling information on his clients to the Germans.]]
* CrusadingLawyer: Smaal. He gets Jews the necessary recourses to flee the country, represents captured Resistance members and tries to ensure their fair treatment, and even when he suspects who the mole is after the war, says that the man deserves the right to a fair trial.
* DeadlyDeferredConversation: At the end of the war, [[spoiler:Smaal]] tells Rachel that he knows who the traitor is but will not say so except to the lawful Canadian authorities, to ensure a fair investigation. Naturally he gets killed before he can get there.
* GenreSavvy: Munze quickly figures out Rachel is a Resitance member when an important collaborator happens to get killed just after this woman appears and becomes his lover.
* NiceHat: Joop's top hat, although he only wears it in a couple scenes.
* NobleBigot: Gerben is a dedicated resistance member who does a fair bit to help people, but does not hide his belief that the lives of "good Dutchmen" are worth more than Jews when it comes down to the matter of who to save.
* NoManLeftBehind: Kees spends a while dragging Tim to safety while shooting at the Germans during the retreat from the jail, [[spoiler:Before Tim is shot in his arms]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The Canadian Officer who Rachel ultimately takes her information too. Hans is this to the Resistance for most of the movie, [[spoiler: then it turns out he's a traitor]].
* SerendipitousSurvival: [[spoiler:Theo]] only survives the attempts jailbreak due to being outside waiting as the driver, while nearly everyone else is killed.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Theo, a devout Christian who previously refused to kill even as his friends were threatened, ends up shooting a collaborator because he was very upset by the amount of blasphemy uttered by said collaborator.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: Theo, a devout Christian who previously refused to kill even as his friends were threatened, ends up shooting a collaborator because he was very upset by the amount of blasphemy uttered by said collaborator. [[TheseHandsHaveKilled This causes him a great deal of anguish once the adrenaline has worn off]].
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* {{Undertaker}}: Resistance member Joop, who smuggles Rachel past the Nazi's in a coffin at one point.
* UndyingLoyalty: Munze's driver who helps [[spoiler:Him and Rachel escape the SS]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After the war, [[spoiler:Theo]] is seen helping [[spoiler:Gerben]] excavate bodies killed by the Nazi's but does not take part in the climax, even though the information revealed there would have been meaningful to him.
* UndyingLoyalty: Munze's driver who helps [[spoiler:Him and Rachel escape the SS]].
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After the war, [[spoiler:Theo]] is seen helping [[spoiler:Gerben]] excavate bodies killed by the Nazi's but does not take part in the climax, even though the information revealed there would have been meaningful to him.
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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Müntze, who is ShotAtDawn after the war ended despite being a TokenGoodTeammate of the SS and tried to negotiate with the resistance.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Rachel, after being framed as a collaborator.
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* InspectorJavert: The Dutch resistance are this to Rachel under suspicion as a collaborator after her FrameUp.
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* 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 enemy P.O.W.s after Allied victory.
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* InspiredByInspiredBy: The execution of Müntze is loosely based on the notorious execution of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_May_1945_German_deserter_execution two German sailors]] in the Netherlands five days after the war ended.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Or possibly a variation on VorpalPillow. In the movie, Hans suffocates in barely a couple of minutes. In RealLife, anyone trapped in a coffin would take several hours to die.
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* TraumaticHaircut: A brief shot of Dutch women who dated Germans, getting their hair hacked off in the public square. TruthInTelevision.
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* FanDisservice: Full frontal nudity from the obese and disgusting Franken. Later in the movie, a woman being forcibly stripped and forced to sing, then being showered in a large bucket of shit as punishment.
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* FanDisservice: Full frontal nudity from the obese and disgusting Franken. Later in Rachel is put through a HumiliationConga by the movie, Dutch resistance as punishment for sleeping with a woman Nazi, which involves her being forcibly stripped and naked, forced to sing, then being showered sing ''Happy Days are Here Again'', gets hits with a stick to get her in position, has a large full bucket of shit as punishment.crap dumped on her (apparently placed there just for that reason), and they finally finish her off by "cleaning" her with a high-pressure fire hose. Another example is the first sex scene with the aforementioned Nazi - "Is this Jewish?".
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* HateSink: Günther Franken. He's a [[FatBastard fat and salacious bastard]] who had Jews lured into a fake escape route to massacre them and loot their possessions, has LaResistance think Rachel is part of LesCollaborateurs, had the same Resistance network mostly wiped out in a trap along with getting Ludwig Müntze arrested which will lead to his death, and he gets off scott free with his loot and without a punishment from the Allies. Granted, KarmaHoudiniWarranty kicks in courtesy of [[spoiler:Akkermans]], but the few bullets he gets don't feel enough for all the suffering he caused and he doesn't get killed out of justice.
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* HairyGirl: Rachel's pubic hair is completely unshaven, which we see as she's dying it blonde as part of a disguise (along with the hair on her head). This was common for European women then (and now).
* HateSink: Günther Franken. He's a [[FatBastard fat and salacious bastard]] who had Jews lured into a fake escape route to massacre them and loot their possessions, has LaResistance think Rachel is part of LesCollaborateurs, had the same Resistance network mostly wiped out in a trap along with getting Ludwig Müntze arrested which will lead to his death, and he gets offscott scot free with his loot and without a punishment from the Allies. Granted, KarmaHoudiniWarranty kicks in courtesy of [[spoiler:Akkermans]], but the few bullets he gets don't feel enough for all the suffering he caused and he doesn't get killed out of justice.
* HateSink: Günther Franken. He's a [[FatBastard fat and salacious bastard]] who had Jews lured into a fake escape route to massacre them and loot their possessions, has LaResistance think Rachel is part of LesCollaborateurs, had the same Resistance network mostly wiped out in a trap along with getting Ludwig Müntze arrested which will lead to his death, and he gets off
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* ToBeLawfulOrGood: General Käutner has [[spoiler:Müntze executed for treason, even though the war is already over and he won't be profiting from it in any way]].
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler:Dr. Akkermans is loosely based on the real-life French serial murderer and fake resistant Dr. Marcel Petiot. Although unusually for a Verhoeven film, his behavior is bowdlerized compared to the truly horrific stuff Petiot got up to.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler:Dr. Akkermans is loosely based on the real-life French serial murderer and fake resistant Dr. Marcel Petiot. Although unusually for a Verhoeven film, his behavior is bowdlerized compared Petiot, who killed Jews and other fugitives to the truly horrific stuff take their belongings. Unlike Akkerman, Petiot got up to.]]had no connections with either the resistance or the Nazis. He just claimed to be part of an escape network that did not exist]].
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A 2006 Dutch film taking place in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII late [=1944/early=] 1945]], during the last few months of the Occupation of UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands by UsefulNotes/NaziGermany. Released internationally as ''Black Book''.
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.
Following this is romance, more escape attempts, and betrayal, continuing after the Allied tanks are rolling in.
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''.
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* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: Drinking to the Queen is, if you're a Communist.
* 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.
* AntiVillain: Müntze.
* BackAlleyDoctor: [[spoiler: Dr. Hans Akkermans, seemingly]] one of the morally just, a doing-the-best-with-what's-available type rather than the skeevy, barely competent sort.
** Of course [[spoiler: it turns out Akkermans was selling information on his clients to the Germans.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Müntze was a good-looking man while Franken, well, not so much.
* BerserkButton / DisproportionateRetribution: Theo is ultra-Christian and can't bring himself to kill. Even if you shoot at and strangle his friends, Theo won't kill you. Set up wealthy Jewish families for death, Theo won't kill you. [[spoiler: Blaspheme, Theo will kill you.]]
* BilingualBonus: Multilingual, really. One will hear Dutch, German, English, and Hebrew.
* BlackAndGreyMorality: While a few of the Nazis and collaborators are portrayed as flat-out vile, the Hauptsturmführer is a friendly Nazi willing to negotiate a truce, and no one on the good side really comes out shining, not even the devout Christian.
* BodybagTrick: A somewhat more old-fashioned variation, with people crossing checkpoints using coffins, deathly make-up, and stories of contagious diseases. [[spoiler: Doesn't work for Hans. After getting caught, it's made into a deathtrap by screwing it shut all nice and tight-like.]]
* TheCameo: Famous Dutch comedian and actor Theo Maassen is one of the post-liberation abusers of collaborators.
* TheCastShowOff: All the songs sung by Rachel/Ellis are sung by Carice van Houten herself.
* ChekhovsGun: Ellis/Rachel talks about a diabetic man from her cabaret days who'd eat some chocolate when he'd take too much insulin. Towards the end of the movie, she uses this knowledge when [[spoiler:Hans tries to kill her with an overdose of insulin]].
* LesCollaborateurs
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Hans is suffocated to death in a coffin he was trying to use to escape.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Müntze isn't married, though he used to be.
* DyeOrDie: Rachel has to bleach her black hair to pass as Ellis. All of it. The audience is treated to a scene in which part of the job is being done. It's not the part that involves the hair on her head.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: In order to get into SD HQ.
* FakeOutMakeOut: Between Ellis and a member of the resistance group during a train-wide identity check.
* FanDisservice: Full frontal nudity from the obese and disgusting Franken. Later in the movie, a woman being forcibly stripped and forced to sing, then being showered in a large bucket of shit as punishment.
* FanService: Nudity from Ellis/Rachel and Ronnie. It's a Paul Verhoeven movie with a female main character so it's a given.
* FriendlyEnemy: Müntze, while a Nazi officer and therefore firmly on the wrong side of things, is a friendly, kind man trying to do good.
* FriendOrFoe:
* FromBadToWorse: Pretty much the whole plot, and that's saying something with a movie where the lead's whole family was killed in the first ten minutes.
* HowWeGotHere: The movie opens in Israel in the 1950s when a Christian tour group visits a kibbutz and one of the group members by chance encounters the main protagonist Rachel, her friend from the Second World War period, who she didn't realize was Jewish. The movie then flashes back to tell Rachel's story.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: All over the place.
* IdiotBall:
** If you're a former Nazi and a woman often seen to fraternize with Nazis, going back to a place where people will recognize you as such shortly after the liberation might not be such a good idea. And yet...
** Trying to kill a person with an insulin overdose and leaving them alone with a bag you showed them minutes before was filled with family-size chocolate bars.
* InspiredBy
* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: Muntze]] is executed by a German firing squad for negotiating with the Resistance... ''after'' the liberation, because technically speaking Nazi-era German law is still in effect for officers. Hans {{lampshades}} it as absurd. It's especially jarring to see Canadian soldiers handing out rifles and bullets to German [=POWs=] whom they had recently been fighting.
* KarmaHoudini: Ronnie is a minor one, as she didn't do anything wrong besides fraternizing with the Nazis [[spoiler: and she helps Muntze and Ellis to escape]], but she still manages to escape unpunished for being a collaborator.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Hans Akkermans' attempts to kill everyone from the resistance who might identify him as TheMole. He almost succeeds.]]
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Doctor Hans Akkermans, though Rachel/Ellis is initially suspected to be one.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[spoiler: Dr. Hans Akkermans again. Seems a good chap bravely fighting for the cause until we find out he wasn't quite that.]]
* NaziGold: The money Franken stole from the Jews he lured to their deaths. Possibly better described as {{plunder}}, as he didn't hand it over to his superiors and the Reich as he should have.
* NobleDemon: Müntze is something of one as he was [[spoiler: trying to negotiate with the resistance and was only killed because of it.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[spoiler:Dr. Akkermans is loosely based on the real-life French serial murderer and fake resistant Dr. Marcel Petiot. Although unusually for a Verhoeven film, his behavior is bowdlerized compared to the truly horrific stuff Petiot got up to.]]
* 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.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Kautner.
* OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe: He's not.
* PayEvilUntoEvil:
** [[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.]]
** [[spoiler: Franken gets killed by Hans Akkermans on his getaway boat when he attempts to leave the country with the valuable things he stole from the corpses of Jews.]]
** [[spoiler: After being found out, Hans attempts to escape the country, but Rachel and the former resistance leader catch up with him and leave him to suffocate in a coffin]].
** [[spoiler: The treatment of the suspected collaborators, according to their jailers' view]].
* LaResistance
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Dr. Hans Akkermans, a guy pretty high up in the resistance group and initially lauded as a hero by the people after the liberation, betrayed everyone and delivered entire families of Jews to the Nazis.]]
* RunForTheBorder: Rachel and her family tried to get to a liberated part of the country by boat. This was a set-up, organized by people who wanted to kill the Jews and take their valuables. Only Rachel survived and she did not manage to make it across.
* ShotAtDawn: [[spoiler: Müntze. No last minute heroic rescue.]]
* ShoutOut: Ellis has to sing "Ich bin die fesche Lola" to entertain German officers. It was sung by Creator/MarleneDietrich in ''Film/TheBlueAngel''.
* SomedayThisWillComeInHandy: Ellis' knowledge of how to cure an insulin overdose (by consuming massive amounts of sugar).
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Ellis and Müntze.]]
* TokenReligiousTeammate: Theo.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Theo, a devout Christian who previously refused to kill even as his friends were threatened, ends up shooting a collaborator because he was very upset by the amount of blasphemy uttered by said collaborator.
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: At the beginning Ronnie meets Rachel in Israel, some ten years after the war, which leads Rachel to remember certain events. After the final 1945 scene we return to Israel where we see her family and find out that [[spoiler: the kibbutz was founded by reclaimed money the Nazis stole from Jews.]]
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