Black Book (2006)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven · Cinematography by Karl Walter Lindenlaub
R145 min52 frames
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To fight the enemy, she must become one of them.
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What is Black Book about?
Israel, 1956: Jewish teacher Rachel Stein rather unexpectedly meets an old friend at the kibbutz. It brings back memories of her experiences in the Netherlands during the war, memories of betrayal. In September 1944, Rachel's hiding place is bombed by Allied troops; she makes contact with a resistance member and joins a group of Jews to be smuggled across the Biesbosch to the freed South Netherlands. Only Rachel escapes a massacre by patrol Germans, and is rescued by a resistance group under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers, whose son is captured trying to smuggle weapons. Kuipers asks Rachel to seduce SS-hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze, a mission that she will soon learn that the boat attack wasn't a coincidence.
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What does the cinematography of Black Book look like?
Across 52 sampled frames, Black Book builds its coverage from medium shots (44% of the sample), with wide compositions (33%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Karl Walter Lindenlaub keeps 50% of it in soft, low-key light. 50% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of Black Book?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Black Book (2006) are #332f2b, #151413, #231a16, #47342d, #d5d2c8, #5a4636 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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