Turkish Delight (1973)

De hoofdpersoon, de jonge beeldhouwer Erik heeft een turbulent liefdesleven, tot hij zijn grote liefde Olga ontmoet. Zij trouwen tegen de zin van Olga's rijke ouders. Geschapen voor elkaar, trekken zij zich niets aan van alle tegenwerking en beleven een grandioze, romantische zomer. Totdat Olga zich zeer vreemd begint te gedragen. Ze breekt abrupt met Erik en gaat weer naar haar ouders. Erik wil Olga terughalen, maar wordt hardhandig geconfronteerd met haar louche nieuwe vriend. Onverwachts wordt Olga echter in het ziekenhuis opgenomen.

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The most popular film in Dutch history, Turkish Delight stars Rutger Hauer as Erik Vonk, a free spirited sculptor who enters into a passionate affair with the beautiful Olga (van de Ven), whose thirst for sexual experimentation matches his own. As their romance progresses, the two decide to marry, but their relationship is opposed by Olga's mother, who thinks Erik is a scoundrel and unfit to marry her daughter. Slowly, the differences between Erik and Olga's family bring about the end of their relationship. Years later, the two meet again and, under a much different set of circumstances, bring some amount of clos...
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ure to their turbulent relationship. Paul Verhoeven's wonderfully satisfying romance is a beautiful and erotic film that cemented his reputation as the Netherlands's finest director.
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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...
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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.
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