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Black Book (Zwartboek)

by Kate Williams

[22.Oct.07] :. While the film begins with the familiar tagline of “Inspired by true events” Black Book is best approached through the lens of the classic pulp thriller.

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Black Book (Zwartboek) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.May.07] :. Broadly drawn and ballsy, the movie features horrendous violence and stupefying melodrama: it's WWII without the usual sober romance, the Greatest Generation meets Starship Troopers.

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The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Feb.07] :. In East Berlin 1984, Gerd Wiesler believes in what he does. A Stasi captain and surveillance expert, he implacably pursues his directive, "to know everything."

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