The Diamond Film is a film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

 recognising domestic box office

Box office

A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through an unblocked hole through a wall or window, or at a wicket....

 achievements in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The Diamond Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold 1,000,000 cinema tickets or more during the original circulation. The award is initiated by the Netherlands Film Festival

Netherlands Film Festival

The Netherlands Film Festival is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht.During the ten-day festival, all Dutch film productions of the previous year are exhibited. Besides feature films, the program also consists of short subjects, documentary...

 and the Netherlands Film Fund

Netherlands Film Fund

The Netherlands Film Fund is a subsidy fund for Dutch film productions and was founded in 1993. The Netherlands Film Fund is itself mainly subsidized by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science...

 in addition to the Golden Film

Golden Film

The Golden Film is a film award recognizing domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Golden Film is awarded to films from the Netherlands once they have sold . The award is an initiative by the Netherlands Film Festival and the Netherlands Film Fund to increase media attention for...

 for 100,000 visitors, the Platinum Film

Platinum Film

The Platinum Film is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. It is awarded for the first 400,000 visitors of a Dutch film production...

 for 400,000 visitors, and the Crystal Film

Crystal Film

The Crystal Film is a film award recognising domestic box office achievements in the Netherlands. The Crystal Film is awarded to documentary films from the Netherlands once they have sold 10,000 tickets...

 for 10,000 visitors of a documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

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The first Diamond Film was awarded to Black Book (2006) on January 31, 2007. The director of the Netherlands Film Festival presented the trophies to the producer San Fu Maltha

San Fu Maltha

San Fu Maltha is a Dutch film producer and film distributor. He founded the production company Fu Works and he co-founded film distributor A-Film.-Biography:San Fu Maltha was born on July 17, 1958 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands....

, director Paul Verhoeven, and the film cast

Casting (performing arts)

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, during a dinner for the film crew

Film crew

Television crew positions are derived from those of film crew positions.A film crew is a group of people hired by a production company for the purpose of producing a film or motion picture. Crew are distinguished from cast, the Actors who appear in front of the camera or provide voices for...

 and cast organized by San Fu Maltha. Black Book was the first film since the introduction of Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 box office awards in 2001 that reached an audience of one million visitors. Black Book had a budget of €

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17,000,000, which made it the most expensive film from the Netherlands ever, at the time of its release. After receiving the Diamond Film, Paul Verhoeven says about Black Book: Scenario writer Gerard Soeteman

Gerard Soeteman

Gerard Soeteman is a Dutch screenwriter. He worked together with Paul Verhoeven on several films, such as Turkish Delight and Black Book...

 says about Black Book after it received the Diamond Film:

Films that received the Diamond Film

Diamond Film for 1,000,000 tickets sold
Year	Film title	Film release	Diamond Film
2007	Black Book	September 14, 2006	January 31, 2007
	Alles is Liefde Alles is Liefde Alles is Liefde is a 2007 romantic comedy film , directed by Joram Lürsen, starring Carice van Houten, Paul de Leeuw, Wendy van Dijk, and Daan Schuurmans.-Plot:...	October 11, 2007	December 7, 2007