a Oscar winner

Rating: 10/10 (20 May 2007)

The Jewish girl Rachel, played by Carice van Houten is brilliant. Frightening brilliant if one realizes that it is her 1st ever movie. Even Paul Verhoeven was amazed with the end result. She saves her life by eating chocolate which was dropped by allied forces, after being drugged with insulin. Crazy enough there's a Dutch chocolate factory called van Houten. Every kid in Holland was raised with that.
Zwartbook, aka Black Book, contains some intriguing pointers. The Dutch student Hans Akkermans (Thom Hoffman) who acted as counter intelligence for the Nazi SS inside dutch underground, was specialized in medicine. His tool was insulin to create dependent victims whom by overdose could be easily killed, with no CSI questions asked... Interesting enough so-called diabetes is even today one of the most abundant diseases, which apparently has no structural cure but insulin itself. It gets even more scary when inside the movie the British forces drop a box labeled "handle with care" which contain insulin as a special delivery for Hans Akkermans himself. Who are the good guys and who are the bad guys? If one knows about the 'England Spiel' and the recent book 'Hitler was a British agent' a rather sinister image is depicted which presumably had the Netherlands as main theater and dutch resistance as its main actors.
The beginning and ending is also sinister, depicting Rachel and her family inside a Israeli kibbutz in 1956 with IDF forces on guard. A bus arrives from Israel Holy Land tours. Welcome to the holy land. Make sure though to have enough mitzvahs to make your safe journey home. The Israel/Jewish problem ain't solved to this very day. Something tells me its by design.