Film Director Paul Verhoeven directs a scene from Black Book Berlin, Germany --I’m blessed in recent years to have made some wonderful German friends that work in the German film industry as filmmakers or are involved with film funding.   If you’ve not noticed, Germany has become very serious about making great films.  Many of them are being made in English!  The best is yet to come!  My all time favorite film is Black Book .  That terrific film was funded in part through generous German government film funding .  This exciting, Paul Verhoeven , World War Two thriller is actually filmed in mostly Dutch but also in German, English and some Yiddish depending on when and where the scene take place.  Most of the European stars speak English and none better than Carice van Houten who won the, once in a lifetime staring role of the accidental hero, Rachel Stein . Europe is a linguistic melting pot.  Italians, French, Germans, Dutch, ...