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Turkish Delight (original title: Turks fruit) is 1973 Dutch movie based on Jan Wolkers' 1969 novel with the same title.

The film is directed by Paul Verhoeven and filmed by Jan de Bont. It stars Rutger Hauer as "Eric" and Monique van de Ven as "Olga". Filming locations included Amsterdam and Alkmaar in the Netherlands.

The film was very popular in The Netherlands having 3.5 million visitors. In 1973 Turkish Delight was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and was called best Dutch movie of the century by the Dutch Film Festival in 1999. Runners-up were Soldier of Orange
and Character
.

Plot

Turkish Delight starts with a look at the failure of sculptor Eric to engage in lasting and meaningful relations with women. His brief encounters with women are purely of a sexual and sometimes violent nature. The rest of the movie consists of flash-backs that may help the viewer understand how Eric came to be this way.

Eric picks up hitch-hiker Olga, and immediately they hit it off together, both sexually and spiritually. They live together and even marry at some point, but when Olga flirts with someone else, he slaps her and she leaves him. Later Olga gets a brain tumor that debilitates her (the title of the movie comes from her insistance on eating turkish delight, as she is afraid that harder food will break her teeth) and then dies.

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Movies - Turkish Delight

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