Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven, Tonny Huurdeman
Language: Dutch | Subtitles: English
Country: Netherlands | Imdb Info
Also known as: Turks Fruit, Wild Intent
Description: Eric Vonk (Rutger Hauer) is a wild, magnetic sculptor—an artist who lives by impulse and desire. Olga (Monique van de Ven), a radiant redheaded free spirit, picks him up on the roadside one day, and what begins as a reckless sexual encounter soon erupts into one of the most passionate, volatile love affairs ever captured on film. Their union is primal, anarchic, and deeply physical—two lovers fighting to escape the hypocrisy of a world ruled by cold parents, class expectations, and suffocating moral codes.
When Olga’s domineering mother forces a wedge between them, the couple’s bond begins to unravel. Jealousy, betrayal, and self-destruction follow, until fate delivers a cruel blow: Olga falls ill with a brain tumor, her once-fiery body and mind fading before Eric’s eyes. In their final days together, love transforms from lust to devotion. Her only comfort is a piece of Turkish delight—sweet, soft, and fleeting—symbolizing the fragile beauty of their shared past.
Visually daring and emotionally raw, Verhoeven’s film merges eroticism and tragedy into a portrait of love stripped bare. With Hauer and van de Ven in fearless, career-defining performances, Turkish Delight became the highest-grossing Dutch film of all time and a symbol of the sexual revolution’s most bittersweet truth: even the fiercest passion cannot outlive mortality.
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This uncut version preserves Verhoeven’s original edit—complete with the once-censored scenes of full-frontal intimacy and psychological decay that defined the film’s scandalous power. What remains is not just an erotic masterpiece, but an unflinching elegy to youth, freedom, and the devastating beauty of desire.
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