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Turkish Delight

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1hr 47min

Genres:

Drama,Romance

Release:

1973

Director:

Paul Verhoeven

Distributor:

Anchor Bay

Starring:

Dolf de Vries, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman ...more

Synopsis: 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 ... Full Synopsis

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	Buzz McClain, AMG Review This early exercise in excess from Paul Verhoeven includes realistic depictions of, in no particular order: murder, sex, solo sex, bondage, gore, vomit (a pivotal plot point), feces, and full-frontal male and female nudity. Obviously, Turkish Delight is not for all tastes, but the adventurous cinema lover will gut it out to see the origins of the distinctive styles of Verhoeven and his cinematographer ... Full Review

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	Rutger Hauer Eric

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