After sometime on the run, she meets up with the Dutch resistance. She changes her name, dyes her hair and infiltrates a German HQ in an effort to help the son of one of the fighters to escape. In doing so she both falls in love with a member of the SS and finds a link to the traitor who killed her family.
One of Paul Verhoeven's more sensible and realistic films stars the very convincing Carice van Houten as Rachael, well known now for her role in Game of Thrones, and the talented German actor Sebastian Koch as her SS lover. The production is big and flashy and slightly tacky which is a feel you always seem to get from Verhoeven, the director of Basic Instinct, but it doesn't take away from it. There's a good story and some very good performances. At 145 mins it's a little long. I don't see the need for it to have been set-up as a flash back and in fact we'd have had more of a thrill about whether or not she would survive if it hadn't been. Non action-based well made modern war stories are few and far between, this is one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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