Black Book Movie

WHEN asked why there is so much moral ambiguity in his films, notably in "Black Book," the World War II thriller that opened here last week, Paul Verhoeven volunteers a story from his boyhood in Holland. During the last winter of the war, everyone in Holland was starving -- it was known as the Hunger Winter. Battered by Allied attacks, the occupying Germans took any available food for themselves.

WHEN asked why there is so much moral ambiguity in his films, notably in "Black Book," the World War II thriller that opened here last week, Paul Verhoeven volunteers a story from his boyhood in Holland. During the last winter of the war, everyone in Holland was starving -- it was known as the Hunger Winter. Battered by Allied attacks, the occupying Germans took any available food for themselves.