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The morbid Catholic writer Gerard Reve that is homosexual, alcoholic and has frequent visions of death is invited to give a lecture in the literature club of Vlissingen. While in the railway station in Amsterdam, he feels a non-corresponded attraction to a handsome man that embarks in another train. Gerard is introduced to the treasurer of the club and beautician Christine Halsslag, who is a wealthy widow that owns the beauty shop Sphinx, and they have one night stand. On the next morning, Gerard sees the picture of Christine's boyfriend Herman and he recognizes him as the man he saw in the train station. He sugg...
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ests her to bring Herman to her house to spend a couple of days together, but with the secret intention of seducing the man. Christine travels to Köln to bring her boyfriend and Gerard stays alone in her house. He drinks whiskey and snoops her safe, finding three film reels with names of men; he decides to watch the footages and discover that Christine had married the three guys and all of them died in tragic accidents. Later Gerard believes Christine is a witch and question whether Herman or him will be her doomed fourth husband.
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In visioenen krijgt het hoofdpersonage Gerard (Krabbé) voldoende lugubere aanwijzingen dat zijn nieuwe vriendin Christine (Soutendijk) niet te vertrouwen is. Gerard is weliswaar een schrijver wiens fantasie op hol kan slaan, maar is het niet verdacht dat Christine's drie vorige mannen zomaar stierven? Naar de roman van Gerard Reve.
This stylish erotic thriller gained a cult following for its frank treatment of bisexuality, bizarre visuals, and an extremely sexy performance by Renee Soutendijk as a woman who may or may not have killed her three previous husbands. Jeroen Krabbe is terrific as the intended fourth, a broken-down bisexual writer who is pulled into Soutendijk's web like an unsuspecting fly. Bloody and erotic, De Vierde Man will also interest fans of director Paul Verhoeven, who returned to many of the same themes in his smash American hit Basic Instinct.
Drunk, broke, prone to hallucinations, and obsessed with murdering his homosexual lover, controversial author Gerard Reve hooks up with Christine, a blonde temptress who may or may not be a murderous black widow.