Directed by:
Paul VerhoevenScreenplay:
Gerard SoetemanCinematography:
Jan de BontComposer:
Rogier van OtterlooCast:
Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Wim van den Brink, Hans Boskamp, Dolf de Vries, Manfred de Graaf, Dick Scheffer, Marjol Flore (more)Plots(1)
Brazen adaptation of Jan Wolkers's novel won an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-language Film Production and marked the breakthrough of director Paul Verhoeven in Hollywood. The film tells of an artist (played by Rutger Hauer) having an impassioned romance with a young woman (a role played by the twenty-year-old acting school student Monique van de Ven) who later dies from a brain tumour. Verhoeven's Turks Fruit is one of the most successful Dutch movies of all times (3.5 million visitors). During the 1999 Netherlands Film Festival Verhoeven received a Golden Calf for Best Dutch Film of the Century for Turks Fruit. In 2007 the film was also admitted to the "Canon van de Nederlandse Film", a list of the most important Dutch films. (Nederlands Film Festival)
(more)Cast
![Monique van de Ven](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/483/483254_5e91fa.jpg)
Monique van de Ven
Netherlands
Best movies:
Cathy Tippel (1975)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Amsterdamned (1988)
![Rutger Hauer](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/860/162860715_f6e54d.png)
Rutger Hauer
Netherlands
Best movies:
Batman Begins (2005)
Paradis Express (1997)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Tonny Huurdeman
Netherlands
Best movies:
Dexter the Dragon & Bumble the Bear (1983)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Wim van den Brink
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Hans Boskamp
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
China White (1989)
![Dolf de Vries](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/731/161731387_003fd6.jpg)
Dolf de Vries
Netherlands
Best movies:
Black Book (2006)
Max Havelaar (1976)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Manfred de Graaf
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
The Lift (1983)
Dick Scheffer
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
The Lift (1983)
Marjol Flore
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Bert Dijkstra
Indonesia
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Bert André
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Woman Between Wolf and Dog (1979)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Jon Bluming
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Vincent et moi (1990)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Paul Brandenburg
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Suze Broks
Netherlands
Best movies:
Cathy Tippel (1975)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Truus Dekker
Netherlands
Best movies:
Cathy Tippel (1975)
Turkish Delight (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Olga Zuiderhoek
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
The Northerners (1992)
The Dress (1996)
Jaap van Donselaar
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Reinier Heidemann
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Joost Prinsen
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Hans Kemna
Netherlands
Best movies:
Turkish Delight (1973)
Love Is All (2007)
Diary of a Hooker (1971)