Turkish Delight (1973)
- Director(s):
- Paul Verhoeven
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In Paul Verhoeven's sexual psychodrama Turkish Delight -- an adaptation of Jan Wolkers' best-selling erotic novel -- Rutger Hauer (Soldier of Orange) is Eric, an Amsterdam artist whose paintings and sculptures are all perverse. He spends his days wandering around the city and picking up young female lovers -- whom he beds and then tosses aside mercilessly -- and keeps an extensive scrapbook of mementos from his bedmates. Eric is deeply haunted, however, by a dysfunctional past relationship. He only fell in love on one occasion: with Olga (Verhoeven regular Monique Van de Ven), a mentally unstable woman dying of a brain tumor. The film received a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination in 1973 and became one of the most lucrative motion pictures ever generated by the Dutch film industry. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 108 mins
Complete Cast:
- Dolf de Vries - Paul
- Tonny Huurdeman - The Mother
- Rutger Hauer - Eric
- Monique Van de Ven - Olga
- Director(s):
- Paul Verhoeven
- Writer(s):
- Gerard Soeteman
- Producer(s):
- Rob Houwer
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