Verhoeven claims that he and co — writer Gerard Soeteman spent 40 years
researching Black Book and 20 years developing the
script, and many of the details have been plucked from wartime records: Muntze is a stamp collector, for example, because the
real head of the Dutch Gestapo was a stamp collector.
For a story like this, based on a
real - life incident, is your performance based exclusively on the
script or do you do outside
research about the people and the times?