After Schindler's List, the movie Black Book (Redirected from Zwartboek) impacted me on World war crimes. Black Book is not a true story, but Paul Verhoeven states that many of the events are true. In this movie, everything has 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. The film had its world premiere on September 1, 2006, at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on September 14, 2006, in the Netherlands.In 2008, the Dutch public voted it the best Dutch film ever.
Time magazine's Richard Schickel 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.”
