/black book (zwartboek), 2006
rachel, ellis (Carice van Houten). resourceful, straightforward, pretty. used to be a cabaret singer. comes from a wealthy Jewish family.
Muntze (Sebastian Koch). head of the Gestapo, Ellis' lover.
Hans (Thom Hoffman). the doctor, part of the Resistance
Gerben. the patriarch of Resistance
Franken. the mean guy of the Gestapo

plot
WWII, then Netherlands. Rachel was in hiding with Christian family, and when they were bombed, she went into further hiding with sailman who saved her. Van Gien found them and pretended to be part of the Resistance. She was reunited with her family, and they were to sail off somewhere. And instead were gunned down by SS men led by Franken. She escapes by jumping into the water. Someone rescues her and turns her into the Resistance instead of taking her to the Nazis. She changes her identity to Ellis and starts to work in Gerben's factory, and later missions. She was to go with Hans with equipment, and on the train she met Muntze and he fancied her. He likes stamps. The resistance tries to smuggle arms, are found out and Gerben's son Tim and 2 others of the Resistance are captured. Gerben urges her connection to Muntze, which she starts by bringing him stamps. She starts working there. She and Muntze hit it off. Muntze talks with Smaal (the lawyer who gave her the money to get on the boat) to try to work out a truce so that the Resistance doesn't kill others, and Nazis won't kill others. She puts a microphone in Franken's office, given to her by Smaal. She hears van Gein who she recognizes. Gerben advocates for no more killings, as he wants his son to be left alive. But Hans says that they should try to kidnap van Gein instead. The plan is botched- chloroform is outdated. And Theo the pacifist ends up shooting van Gein. As van Gein is shot, Nazis are trying to retaliate. Muntze gets a higher official to come in and try to point out Franken's involvement with robbing Jewish people's money but nothing is found and Muntze is imprisoned instead for building alliances with the enemy. The Resistance then tries to break the prisoners out, and Ellis pleads to break Muntze out too. While there's a party for the Fuhrer, the prisoners are broken out, but then the SS guards open fired, as it was a trap. Hans, Theo are the only survivors. On the microphone, Franken tries to frame Ellis, and she's thrown into jail too. She and Muntze are to be executed the next day. Her friend Ronnie, an entertainer for Franken helps distract the SS men while one faithful to Muntze breaks him and Ellis out. They hide out in a boat, are obviously in love. And the war ends. Franken is trying to sail to Hamburg with the loot from the Jewish people he killed, and is shot by Hans. Ellis and Muntz go to Smaal, wanting explanations. And he has the black book. He says he'll tell them all in Canada, and he and wife are to flee there that day. Instead they're both gunned down while Ellis and Muntz are there. Muntz runs out to try to get the perpetrator, is recognized and dragged to jail. Ellis grabs the book, and is captured as well. Muntz goes before the military, and the old bald guy has it in for him and pursues the old charges of having him executed for treason. So the Canadians actually take him to the firing squad. :( Ellis is stuck in wretched conditions with other Nazi supporters and is "rescued" by Hans. Hans is now a celebrated doctor, has a nice place with crowds shouting his name as being a Resistance member. He tells her about Muntz's death, and she finally cries, collapses (wasn't able to cry about family). And he says he'll give her something to make her feel better- a bunch of insulin as he's trying to kill her. While he's basking in public adulation, she wolfs down a chocolate bar, dives over the balcony and runs away. He fails to catch her. Gerben is excavating burial sites to find his son. Ellis finds him, and he still thinks she's a traitor until she and the Canadians explain what's going on with the use of the black book. Franken-Smaal-Hans-van Gein were all in it together. Hans was arrested, and Smaal got him out. People were already alerted to the borders. But he was trying to get out in a hearse (how she got to the Resistance in the first place). she screws him into the coffin.
this is all a flashback. with ronnie touring with her husband, seeing rachel teaching school. rachel has two kids with another man. and lives in a kibbutz in israel.

complex plot that keeps things moving. good acting. b/c it's so busy, less character development.
quite a lot of female boobs. and one shot of a little weenie.

Carice van Houten. was born near Leiden in 1976. brunette. bf is Koch, met on set. TV, some plays. good at dark comedy. plays clarinet. fluent in dutch, german, french, english.

Sebastian Koch. born in Germany, 1962. rather seasoned actor on TV and theatres. He was in "The Lives of Others." Has a daughter Paulina.

watched with @ on netflix instant play, on a cold night

wikipedia info about Netherlands in WWII
At the outbreak of WWII in 1939, the Netherlands declared itself neutral once again as it had done during WWI. Even so, on May 10, 1940 Germany invaded the Netherlands.

The German forces faced little resistance at first, but their advance was eventually slowed by the Dutch arm. A German airborne landing at The Hague, intended to capture the Dutch royal family and the government, failed, and the paratroopers that had not been killed were captured and shipped to Britain. Queen Wilhelmina and her government stayed in Britain, but during the Battle of Britain her daughter Princess Juliana and her children proceeded to Ottawa, Canada.

On May 14 the Germans - surprised by the Dutch resistance, as they had expected to capture the Netherlands in a day - demanded the surrender of the city of Rotterdam, threatening to bomb the city. Bombed before negotiations were finished.
After this bombardment, the German military command threatened to bomb the city of Utrech. The Dutch army capitulated on May 15, with the exception of the forces in Zeeland. They resisted for a few days, until the bombardment of Middelburg on May 17, which forced the Zeeland forces to surrender as well.

The invasion resulted in 3,500 dead, and 6,000 wounded Dutch soldiers and the deaths of over 9000 civilians. The German army lost 2,500 men, suffered 6,000 wounded and 700 troops reported missing, and 2,000 were captured and shipped to Britain.

Initially the Dutch expected to be liberated quickly by the Allied armies, who were expected to drive the Germans back. This did not happen, however. The Allied armies stationed in northern France were forced to evacuate Dunkirk for Britain, and those that remained surrendered as Germany won the Battle of France. The Dutch now knew the Nazi occupation would not be over soon.

Shortly after the German victory, the Dutch government led by Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer was invited by the Germans to return to the country and collaborate with Nazi forces, as the Vichy France government had agreed to do. De Geer wanted to accept this invitation but Queen Wilhelmina did not approve it, and dismissed De Geer in favor of Pieter Gerbrandy, who wanted to continue fighting, as the new leader.

Following the refusal of the Dutch government to return, the Netherlands was controlled by a German civilian governor—unlike France, Denmark and Norway, which had their own governments, or Belgium, which was placed under German military control. The civil government was headed by the Austrian Nazi Arthur Seyss-Inquart. The German occupiers implemented a policy of Gleichschaltung (“enforced conformity”), which was characterizeed by the systematic elimination of non-Nazi organizations. In 1940 the German regime more or less immediately outlawed all socialist and communist parties; in 1941 it forbade all parties, except for the NSB. This second step was an enormous shock to the religious parts of the Dutch society because of decades of pillarisation, which meant that nearly every religious group (for example Catholics and Protestants) had its own institutions. The Roman Catholic Church fiercely opposed the second step but had been silent the year before when the communists party had been outlawed. After the second step in the Gleichschalting policy, all Roman Catholics were urged in 1941 by Dutch bishops to leave associations that had been Nazified.

Another aim of the German occupiers was to dissolve the Dutch nation and make it part of a greater Germanic, or Aryan, one. The German officials, including those of the SS, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Adolf Hitler himself regarded the Dutch as part of the Aryan Herrenvolk.

Shortly after it was established, the military regime began to persecute the Jews of the Netherlands. In 1940, there were no deportations and only small measures were taken against the Jews. In February 1941, the Nazis deported a small group of Dutch Jews to the concentration camp Mauthausen. The Dutch reacted with the February strike as a nationwide protest against the deportations, unique in the history of Nazi-occupied Europe. Although the strike did not accomplish much—its leaders were executed—it was a major setback for Seyss-Inquart as he had planned to both deport the Jews and to win the Dutch over to the Nazi cause. As a reaction to the February strike, the Nazis installed that same month a
Jewish Council: a board of Jews who served as an instrument for organising the identification and deportation of Jews more efficiently, while the Jews on the council were told and convinced they were helping the Jews. In May 1942, the Nazi leaders ordered Dutch Jews to wear the Star of David. Around the same time the Roman Catholic Church of the Netherlands publicly condemned the government’s action in a letter read at all Sunday parish services. Thereafter, the Nazi government treated the Dutch more harshly: notable socialists were imprisoned, and, later in the war, Roman Catholic priests, including Titus Brandsma, were deported to concentration camps. In 1942, a transit camp was built near Westerbork by converting an existing internment camp for immigrants; at Vught and Amersfoort the Germans built concentration camps as well.

Of the 140,000 Jews that had lived in the Netherlands prior to 1940, only 30,000 survived the war. This high death toll had a number of reasons. One was the excellent state of Dutch civil records: the Dutch state, prior to the war, had recorded substantial information on every Dutch national. This allowed the Nazi regime to easily determine who was Jewish (whether fully or partly of Jewish ancestry) simply by accessing the data.

Another factor was the disbelief of both the Dutch public as a whole and the Dutch Jews themselves. Most could not believe that the Jews would be subjected to genocide and sent to death camps. This meant the Jews needed to hide in others’ homes, but that was punishable by death. Despite the risks, many Dutch people helped Jews. One-third of the people who hid Jews did not survive the war.

Arbeitseinsatz—the drafting of civilians for forced labour—was imposed on the Netherlands. This obliged every man between 18 and 45 to work in German factories, which were bombed regularly by the western Allies. Those who refused were forced into hiding. As food and many other goods were taken out of the Netherlands, rationing (with ration cards) became a way of controlling the population. Anyone who violated German laws, such as hiding or hiding another, automatically lost his or her food ration.

The Atlantic Wall, a gigantic coastal defence line built by the Germans along the entire European coast from southwestern France to Denmark and Norway, included the coastline of the Netherlands. Some towns, such as Scheveningen, were evacuated because of this. In The Hague, 3,200 houses were demolished and 2,594 were dismantled. 20,000 houses were cleared, and 65,000 people were forced to move. The Arbeitseinsatz also included forcing the Dutch to work on these projects, but a passive form of resistance took place here by working slowly or poorly.

For the resistance to succeed, it was sometimes necessary for its members to feign collaboration with the Germans. After the war this led to difficulties for those who pretended to collaborate when they could not prove they had been in the resistance —something that was difficult because it was in the nature of the job to keep it a secret.

Not all Dutch offered active or passive resistance against the German occupation. Some Dutch men and women chose or were forced to collaborate with the German regime or joined the German army (which usually would mean being placed in the Waffen-SS). Others, like members of the Henneicke Column, were actively involved in capturing hiding Jews for a price and delivering them to the German occupiers. It is estimated that Henneicke Column captured around 8,000-9,000 Dutch Jews who were ultimately sent to their death in the German death camps.

The NSB (National Socialist Movement), during most of the war was the only allowed Dutch political party, and it actively collaborated with the German occupants. In 1941, when Germany still seemed certain to win the war, about three percent of the adult male population belonged to the NSB.

In 1940 the German regime had outlawed all socialist and communist parties; in 1941 it forbade all parties, except for the NSB. The NSB openly collaborated with the occupation forces. Its membership grew to about 100,000. The NSB played an important role in lower government and civil service; every new mayor appointed by the German occupation government was a member of the NSB.

After the German signing of surrender on May 6, 1945, the NSB was outlawed. Mussert was arrested the following day. Many of the members of the NSB were arrested, but few were convicted; those who were included Mussert, who was executed on May 7, 1946. There were no attempts to continue the organization illegally.

Between 20,000 and 25,000 Dutchmen served in the Heer and the Waffen-SS. The most notable formations were the 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Nederland which saw action exclusively on the Eastern Front and the SS Volunteer Grenadier Brigade Landstorm Nederland which fought in Belgium and the Netherlands.[1]

The Nederland brigade distinguished itself on the Eastern Front during the Battle of Narva (1944), with several troopers receiving the Knight's Cross, Nazi Germany's highest award for bravery.

The Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II developed relatively slowly, but its counter-intelligence, domestic sabotage, and communications networks provided key support to Allied forces beginning in 1944 and through the liberation of the country. Discovery by the Germans of involvement in the resistance meant an immediate death sentence.

The country's terrain, lack of wilderness and dense population made it difficult to conceal any illicit activities, and it was bordered by German-controlled territory, offering no escape route, except by sea.

Resistance in the Netherlands took the form of small-scale, decentralized cells engaged in independent activities. Some small groups had absolutely no links to others. These groups produced forged ration cards and counterfeit money, collected intelligence, published underground newspapers, sabotaged phone lines and railways, prepared maps, and distributed food and goods.

One of the riskiest activities was hiding and sheltering refugees and enemies of the Nazi regime, Jewish families like the family of Anne Frank, underground operatives, draft-age Dutch, and others. Collectively these people were known as onderduikers. Later in the war this system of people-hiding was also used to protect downed Allied airmen. Reportedly, resistance doctors in Heerlen concealed an entire hospital floor from German troops.

In February 1943, a Dutch resistance cell rang the doorbell of the Dutch collaborator Hendrik A. Seyffardt in the Hague. After he answered and identified himself, they shot him twice in the abdomen. He died the following day. This assassination of a lower-level official triggered a cruel reprisal from SS General Hanns Albin Rauter, who ordered the killing of 50 Dutch hostages and a series of raids on Dutch universities. A war crime happened on October 1 and 2, 1944, when the Dutch resistance attacked German troops near the village of Putten. After the attack, the entire male population of Putten was executed. The Dutch resistance unintentionally attacked Rauter's car on March 6, 1945, which in turn led to the killings at De Woeste Hoeve, where 116 men were rounded up and executed at the site of the ambush and another 147 Gestapo prisoners executed elsewhere.

After the Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944, the western Allies rapidly advanced in the direction of the Dutch border. Tuesday September 5 is known as Dolle dinsdag (“mad Tuesday”)—the Dutch began celebrating, believing they were close to liberation. In September, the Allied launched Operation Market Garden, an attempt to advance from the Dutch-Belgian border across the rivers Meuse, Waal and Rhine into the north of the Netherlands and Germany. However, the Allied forces did not reach this objective because they could not capture the Rhine bridge at Arnhem. During Market Garden, substantial regions to the south, including Nijmegen and much of North Brabant, were liberated. Much of the northern Netherlands remained in German hands until the Rhine crossings in late March 1945.

Parts of the southern Netherlands were not liberated by Operation Market Garden, which had established a narrow salient between Eindhoven and Nijmegen. In the east of North Brabant and in Limburg, British and American forces in Operation Aintree managed to defeat the remaining German forces west of the Meuse between late September and early December 1944, destroying the German bridgehead between the Meuse and the Peel marshes. During this offensive the only tank battle ever fought on Dutch soil took place at Overloon.

At the same time, the Allies also advanced into the province of Zeeland. At the start of October 1944, the Germans still occupied Walcheren and dominated the Scheldt estuary and its approaches to the port of Antwerp. The crushing need for a large supply port forced the Battle of the Scheldt in which First Canadian Army fought on both sides of the estuary during the month to clear the waterways. Large battles were fought to clear the Breskens Pocket, Woensdrecht and the Zuid-Beveland Peninsula of German forces, primarily “stomach”[vague] units of the Wehrmacht as well as German paratroopers of Battle Group Chill.

By 31 October, resistance south of the Scheldt had collapsed, and the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division, British 52nd (Lowland) Division and 4th Special Service Brigade all made attacks on Walcheren Island. Strong German defenses made a landing very difficult, and the Allies responded by bombing the dykes of Walcheren at Westkapelle, Vlissingen and Veere to flood the island. Though the Allies had warned residents with pamphlets, 180 inhabitants of Westkappelle died. The coastal guns on Walcheren were silenced in the opening days of November and the Scheldt battle declared over; no German forces remained intact along the 64-mile path to Antwerp.

The Dutch government had not wanted to use the old water line when the Germans had invaded in 1940. It was still possible to create an island out of Holland by destroying dykes and flooding the polders, but this island contained the main cities. The Dutch government had decided then that there were too many people to keep alive to justify the flooding. However, Hitler ordered that Festung Holland be held at any price. The winter of 1944–1945 was very severe, and this led to hunger journeys and starvation (about 30,000 deaths), exhaustion, cold and disease. This winter is known as the Hongerwinter (“hunger winter”), or Dutch famine of 1944. The food situation was aggravated by a general railway strike ordered by the Dutch government-in-exile in expectation of a general German collapse near the end of 1944.

On the island of Texel, nearly 800 Georgians, part of the German army, rebelled on April 5, 1945. Their rebellion was crushed by the German army after two weeks of battle. 565 Georgians, 120 inhabitants of Texel, and 800 Germans died. The 228 surviving Georgians were forcibly repatriated to the Soviet-Union when the war ended.

After crossing the Rhine at Wesel and Rees, Canadian forces entered the Netherlands from the east, liberating the eastern and northern provinces. The western provinces, where the situation was worst, however, had to wait until the surrender of German forces in the Netherlands was negotiated on the eve of May 5, 1945 (three days before the general capitulation of Germany), in the De Wereld Hotel in Wageningen. Previously the Swedish Red Cross had been allowed to provide relief efforts, the most memorable ones employing Allied bombers dropping food over the German-occupied territories in Operation Manna.

After being liberated, Dutch citizens began taking the law into their own hands, as had been done in other liberated countries, such as France. Collaborators and moffenmeiden were abused and humiliated in public, usually by having their heads shaved and painted orange.

By the end of the war 205,900 Dutch men and women had died. The Netherlands had the highest per capita death rate of all Nazi-occupied countries in Western Europe, 2.36%.[2] Another 30,000 died in the Dutch East Indies, either while fighting the Japanese or in camps as Japanese POWs. Dutch civilians were held in those camps as well.[3]
- posted by B @ 8:30 PM

 
/the lady eve, 1941
(barbara stanwyck). daughter of card shark
charles "hopsy" pike (henry fonda). son of family that makes pike's ale.

lighthearted. she likes him. he feels fooled once he finds out what they usu do. she thinks he'll understand but he doesn't. she later seeks revenge, entering his life as "lady eve." he falls for eve, marries her. and eve tells her all the different men she's been with to drive him away. and he tries to go back to south africa to hang out with his snakes, and finds her again, and they're reunited.

"they say a moonlit deck is a woman's office"
"i need him like an axe needs a turkey"

watched on on demand when @ away, and finished after he was at implant dinner
- posted by B @ 9:35 PM