| Turkish Delight | |
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| Dutch | Turks fruit |
| Directed by | Paul Verhoeven |
| Screenplay by | Gerard Soeteman |
| Based on | Turks Fruit by Jan Wolkers |
| Produced by | Rob Houwer |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Jan de Bont |
| Edited by | Jan Bosdriesz |
| Music by | Rogier van Otterloo |
Production company | VNF |
| Distributed by | Nederland Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Language | Dutch |
| Budget | €365,000 |
Turkish Delight (Dutch: Turks fruit) is a 1973 Dutch erotic romantic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by Gerard Soeteman, based on the 1969 novel Turks Fruit by Jan Wolkers. It is a love story of an artist and a young woman, starring Rutger Hauer in his film debut and Monique van de Ven.
Turkish Delight is the most successful film in the history of Dutch cinema. The film was a massive success at the Dutch box office; according to Alle Record, 3,338,000 people saw the film,[1] while the Netherlands Film Festival puts it at 3.5 million,[2] corresponding to about 26% of the population of the Netherlands at the time.[3][4] In 1973 it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[5] and in 1999, it received a special Golden Calf Award for Best Dutch Film of the Century. It was entered into the Canon of Dutch Cinema in 2007.[2] In 2005, it was adapted into a musical, starring Antonie Kamerling and Jelka van Houten.
- ^ "Nederlandse Films met Meeste Bioscoopbezoekers" (Dutch Films with the Greatest Audience), Alle Records (in Dutch). Accessed 4 April 2016.
- ^ a b Turks-fruit on the official website of the Netherlands Film Festival, in Dutch. Accessed 4 April 2016.
- ^ Calculated on the basis of historical data on the official Dutch statistics page, CBS - Statistics Netherlands, StatLine: "Population, households and population dynamics from 1899", which provides the figure of 13,388,000 as the total population of the Netherlands in 1973. Accessed 4 April 2016.
- ^ Turks fruit (film) at the Dutch Wikipedia
- ^ "The 46th Academy Awards (1974) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 3 December 2011.