Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven returns to his roots with a WWII drama that's easily the best thing he's made in years. A vulgar, vigorous and surprisingly old-fashioned ensemble piece about courage, opportunism and cowardice spiked with bitterly unsentimental observations about the situational ethics of collaboration and resistance in occupied nations, it's also a return to the subject he last tackled in 1989's extraordinary SOLDIER OF ORANGE, which he also cowrote with BLACK BOOK's Gerard Soeteman.
Israel, 1956: Dutch-born Ronnie (Halina Reijn), vacationing in Israel with her Canadian husband, is touring a kibbutz when she hears a familiar voice singing t...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
145 mins