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The plan is betrayed, and the would-be rescuers find the prisoners' cells filled with German troops.

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The Resistance plots to rescue their imprisoned members Ellis agrees to cooperate only on the condition that they also free Müntze. Müntze is imprisoned and condemned to death. However, the safe contains no valuables, and Franken then tells Käutner that Müntze has been negotiating with Dutch resistance 'terrorists' for a truce. On her evidence, he confronts Franken with a superior officer, Obergruppenführer Käutner, who orders Franken to open his safe, expecting to find the valuables stolen from the Jews he had killed, this being a capital offence. Müntze forces Ellis to tell him her story. Franken responds by planning to kill 40 hostages, including most of the plotters, but Müntze, who realises the war is lost and has been negotiating with the Resistance, countermands the order.

Their attempt goes wrong, and Van Gein is killed.

Against Kuipers's orders, Akkermans decides to abduct Van Gein to expose him. Thanks to a hidden microphone that Ellis plants in Franken's office, the Resistance realises that Van Gein is the traitor who betrayed Rachel, her family, and the other Jews to the SS. He realises that she is a Jew, but does not care. She obtains a job as a secretary at the SD headquarters while also falling in love with Müntze who, in contrast to Franken, is not abusive or sadistic. At a party at the local SD headquarters, Ellis recognises Obersturmführer Günther Franken, Müntze's brutal deputy, as the officer who had overseen the massacre of refugees on the boat. When Kuipers's son and other members of the Resistance are captured, Ellis agrees to help by seducing local SD commander Hauptsturmführer Ludwig Müntze. Smaal is in touch with this Resistance cell. Using a non-Jewish alias, Ellis de Vries, Rachel becomes involved with a Dutch resistance group in the Hague, under the leadership of Gerben Kuipers and working closely with a doctor, Hans Akkermans. Rachel alone survives, but does not manage to escape from occupied territory. However, they are ambushed on the river by members of the German SS, who kill them and rob the bodies of valuables. Aided by a man named Van Gein, Rachel is reunited with her family and boards a boat that is to take them and other refugees to the south. He arranges for her to escape to the liberated southern part of the country.

When the farmhouse where she had been hiding in was destroyed by an Allied bomber, she goes to see a lawyer named Smaal, who had been helping her family. In 1944, Dutch-Jewish singer Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazi regime in the occupied Netherlands. In 2008, the Dutch public voted it the best Dutch film ever. It was three times more expensive than any Dutch film ever made, and also the Netherlands' most commercially successful, with the country's highest box-office gross of 2006. It was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and was the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, but was not nominated. The international press responded positively, as well, especially to the performance of Van Houten. The press in the Netherlands was positive with three Golden Calves, Black Book won the most awards at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. It is the first film that Verhoeven made in the Netherlands since The Fourth Man, made in 1983 before he moved to the United States. The film had its world premiere on 1 September 2006 at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on 14 September 2006 in the Netherlands. The film, credited as based on several true events and characters, is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. Black Book ( Dutch: Zwartboek) is a 2006 war drama thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn.

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