The first Diamond Film was awarded to Black Book (2006) on 31 January 2007. The director of the Netherlands Film Festival presented the trophies to the producer San Fu Maltha, director Paul Verhoeven, and the film cast, during a dinner for the film crew and cast organized by San Fu Maltha. Black Book was the first film since the introduction of Dutch box office awards in 2001 that reached an audience of one million visitors.[1]Black Book had a budget of €17,000,000, which made it the most expensive film from the Netherlands ever, at the time of its release.[2] After receiving the Diamond Film, Paul Verhoeven says about Black Book:
It is what we hoped for. We've spent a lot of money, and it has been an expensive film. And we all knew that San Fu Maltha would get into trouble, if we would have had only half a million visitors instead of one million. (...) So actually, it is an enormous success.[3][4]
Scenario writer Gerard Soeteman says about Black Book after it received the Diamond Film:
For the sake of films from the Netherlands, one hopes that many people would visit it. It is not just for yourself, but it means that people grow more confident in films from the Netherlands. So the public thinks: 'it can't be as bad as it normally is, let's go to a Dutch film again.' So the success of one film is actually stimulating for the generation of audience in general.[3][5]
Other Dutch films with more than one million admissions
Between 1945 and 2013, the following Dutch films had admissions of greater than one million. In 2014, Gooische Vrouwen 2 had more than 2 million admissions.[13]
↑ Quotation in the original language Dutch: "Het is wel waar we op gehoopt hadden. En we hebben natuurlijk heel veel geld uitgegeven, nietwaar? Het is een dure film geweest. En we wisten allemaal dat als we eigenlijk minder dan een miljoen zouden scoren, zeg maar een half miljoen, dat dan zou San Fu wel in de problemen terecht komen. (...) Dus het is eigenlijk een gigantisch succes."
↑ Quotation in the original language Dutch: "Voor het Nederlandse filmklimaat hoop je dat natuurlijk dat een heleboel mensen naar zoiets toegaan. Want het is niet alleen voor jezelf, maar het betekent ook dat mensen meer vertrouwen krijgen in Nederlandse films. Dat het publiek denkt: 'ja zo rot kan het toch ook niet wezen, als het normaal is, dus laten we maar weer eens naar de Nederlandse film toe gaan.' Dus het is eigenlijk zeer stimulerende voor het publiek, voor het genereren van publiek, het kweken van publiek, dat een film een succes heeft."
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