Where does the film, that was turned into a novel, take place?
Netherlands
Title: Black Book (film)
Passage: Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek ) is a 2006 Dutch thriller film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, and Halina Reijn.  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.  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.  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.
Title: Century (novel)
Passage: Century is a "New York Times" best-selling novel, written by Fred Mustard Stewart and published in 1981.  The story follows four generations of an Italian-American family with settings in both America and Italy.  Most of the events that take place in the novel, take place in actual American and Italian history.  Readers are witnesses to the rise of Benito Mussolini, the Prohibition period, Black Tuesday, World War I, World War II, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, and the gradual formation of the motion picture industry in Hollywood.  The novel spent six weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Title: Black Book (novel)
Passage: Black Book (Dutch: Zwartboek ) is a Dutch-language 2006 thriller novel by Laurens Abbink Spaink.  It is the novelization of the Dutch film "Black Book" (2006).  It tells the story of a young Jewish woman, Rachel Stein, and her struggle for survival during and after the Second World War.  The book has a photo section, and an afterword by Paul Verhoeven and Gerard Soeteman.
Black Book (film) Black Book (novel)