Turkish Delight
(1973)
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Turkish Delight
(1973)
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Monique van de Ven | ... |
Olga Stapels
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| Rutger Hauer | ... |
Eric Vonk, the sculptor
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Tonny Huurdeman | ... |
Olga's mother
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Wim van den Brink | ... |
Olga's father
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Hans Boskamp | ... |
Winkelchef
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Dolf de Vries | ... |
Paul
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Manfred de Graaf | ... |
Henny
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Dick Scheffer | ... |
Accountant
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Marjol Flore | ... |
Tineke
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Bert Dijkstra | ... |
Civil servant
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Bert André |
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Jon Bluming |
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Paul Brandenburg |
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Suze Broks | ... |
(as Suzie Broks)
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David Conyers |
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Sort of a cross between "Love Story" and an earthy Rembrandt painting, this movie stars Rutger Hauer as a gifted Dutch sculptor who has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young girl. The story follows the arc of their relationship and his interaction with her family. Told in flashback form, initially Hauer is seen as a libertine lothario collector, taking trophies from his sexual conquests and pasting them in a book. He sees a sculpture he made of his lost lover and goes into a flashback of his relationship with his wife. He meets the girl, falls in love with/marries her, and we meet her parents: a charming, well meaning, bumbling father, and his shrew of a wife, who's convinced Hauer's too much of a bohemian to make a good mate for her daughter. Eventually, the petty jealousies, the sexual hijinks, and the climactic vomit scene prove too much for the marriage, and sculptor and his lady fair separate. Flash forward several months, and Hauer finds the girl back... Written by <cfidalgo@intrex.net>
Best Dutch film ever.
A pre action movie Rutger Hauer proves he can act.
The full romantic scrambles this film shows probably hit home for so many people. Hence it's success.
It continues to be successful. It recently played Tokyo again in a few art houses and people were lined up. Not just the Dutch expats either, EVERYBODY.
It well deserved its nomination. If the Genius Kurosawa hadn't been nominated, this would have won.
Rutger, we hardly knew ye. HAIL!