Turkish delight (film)

Turkish delight is a Dutch drama film from 1973 by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven, the novel Turks fruit by Jan Wolkers.

Turkish delight with 3.5 million visitors the most successful Dutch cinema film of all time. The film received an Oscar nomination for best foreign language production and won, in 1999, after a public survey during the Dutch Film Festival a special golden calf for best Dutch film of the 20th century ' (soldier of Orange ended in this election in second place, third Character was by Mike van Diem).

In 2007 got Turkish delight an Honorable place in the Canon of the Dutch film, especially because a number of images from the movie among the best known from the Dutch film history have come to include: Eric and Olga newlywed on the bicycle through Amsterdam, Olga on a red blanket under a suspended mirror or both of them together in the pouring rain on the sidewalk. [1]



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[hide] *1 Cast  ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven (7 June 1972) ==Story[ Edit] == Read warning: text below contains details about the content and/or the end of the story.Erik, a young sculptor has a chaotic life until he met Olga, the love of his life. They marry and despite the opposition of Olga's rich parents experience a romantic summer. Suddenly Erik must know nothing more of Olga.She breaks down completely with him and goes back to live with her parents. Erik loves her and wants her back but is stopped by Olga's new seedy friend. And then Olga ends up unexpectedly in the hospital.. ==Production[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Following the success of What I see!? (1971) producer Rob Houwer decided no end to his collaboration with Director Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven asked a Turkish delight 's film version of a book by Jan Wolkers for.Hack saw no bread in: "I thought it was a fantastic book, but I thought, that let no one make you, that no one will allow you." Feared that the hack would be violently, compared to the vrijscènes from What I see!?. He only came in accordance when Gerard Soeteman offered to manufacture the scenario.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-0" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Saidy took on this task because he believed that the book was more about death than about eroticism.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-0" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]
 * 2 Story
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Receipt
 * 4.1 Press
 * 4.2 Public
 * 5 Music
 * 6 external link

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The leading roles were meant for Willeke van Ammelrooy and Hugo Metsers, the two largest Dutch movie stars of the day.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-1" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  When film producer Hans Kemna the novice actress Monique van de Ven met, he invited her to as one of the forty seven actresses to audition for the female roles in the film.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-2" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Verhoeven told here later on: "those girls who all had to be fucked and then kicked out the House again. They continued to hang in one way or another. Goddamn it, I thought, what a nice girl, if I imagine take, that would be yet very original. I have a picture of her taken and which I put next to my tikmachine and all ticking I sat looking at her. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-3" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Van der Westhuizen himself told in an interview from 2007 that they has been advised of the audition through her then-boyfriend Rafik Radier, who-without success-auditioned.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-1" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Van Ammelrooy only got times later told that she was cancelled.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-2" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">During one of the many test scenes that she made, had to include a vrijscène Van der Westhuizen with Rutger Hauer, one of the actors with whom a camera test was done.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-4" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Verhoeven was so stirred that he pleaded that this duo got the leading roles. After seeing a test recording was hack, according to Verhoeven, instantly convinced. In addition, he found it "exciting" to an unknown girl in the lead role casting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-3" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Hack wimpelde Van Ammelrooy off stating that they "too much money" asked. Van Ammelrooy wanted the then substantial amount of 50,000 gulden, Van der Westhuizen got for her leading role eventually 6000 guilders.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-4" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Van der Westhuizen knew until the day she received the call to sign the contract yet that they had been given the lead role.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-5" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  The choice for her took out the front page of The Telegraph.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-6" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Verhoeven told in an interview: "it was the best decision. It was more interesting. Monique was so good. "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-7" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cameraman Jan de Bont suggested all the scenes to run out of control for the smooth nature of the film. Already on the first day on the set got Verhoeven quarrel with the Fur about this new way of filming: "this is Jan Wolkers. This is goddamn not Albert Mol. This is Jan Wolkers, this is different, that you need to run otherwise. That makes me very mad. Which camera should move! "<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-8" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  that same evening stepped Verhoeven to Hack with the ask for the Fur to lay off.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-9" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Later he gave, however, that The Fur was right that his "raw" approach better fit than Verhoeven's "wrong" with the film camera technique.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-10" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to the stakeholders was walking naked on the set, that happened regularly, by the number of vrijscènes "no problem".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-5" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  The hospital scenes in the film are recorded on a not yet operational Department of the then recently built hospital Maria Foundation in Haarlem. The high-rise complex was demolished in 2007. The recordings of the unveiling of the image at the hospital are made by the Queen at the Woudestein-complex of the Erasmus University Rotterdam that for that occasion to Vesalius hospital was renamed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After the recordings gave the command to change to the end Hack Verhoeven. To Masons idea was too "sad" and would the public are not satisfied.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-11" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  according to Verhoeven, this resulted in a crisis, and all crew members went in against this command.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-12" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Pas "after hours talking" Hack the crew gave his sentence.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Turkish delight contains about 1190 shots, which amounts to an average length of 6 seconds. To promote the launch spread hack for nude photos of the players, but there would be no sex announcing that the movie at.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-6" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  Van der Westhuizen got a relationship with The fur. This relationship held until 1987 stand. ==Receipt<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Press<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Critics reacted largely positive on the movie, but some complained that Verhoeven "the subtleties and nuances in the book of Wolkers had bulldozed under oily effects."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-7" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  In the magazine Vrij Netherlands ruled director-producer Wim Verstappen about Turkish delight as "a totally ambiguous film, with a dozen or so really very beautiful moments served in a large sauce quite slimy scenes".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-holland_2-8" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  Jan Wolkers responded enthusiastically and told much of himself in Hauer to spot.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-13" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  Peter van Bueren, reviewer of de Volkskrant, experienced a positive review to Turkish delight. ===Public<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">According to Van der Westhuizen was the premiere of Turkish delight without a red carpet or promotion.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-14" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  she told that at the end of the first performance a standing ovation followed, with crying and grateful people.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-15" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Turkish delight is one of the most successful films of the Dutch history. At the time, it was the one of the most talked about films, for which people joined in rows with masses of people for the cinema.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-goudenjaren_3-16" len="182" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]  to the present, with 3.338.000 visitors, the most visited is the Dutch film of all time. In the list behind close to Fanfare (1958), with 2.63 million visitors.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-boxoffice_4-0" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  the film is, according to the book Film in Netherlands from 2004, in fourth place of the most visited movies in Netherlands, above The Sound of Music (3.99 million), Irma la Douce (3.63 million) and Titanic (3.41 million).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-boxoffice_4-1" len="180" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1995, the year of the film, there appeared a Dutch stamp of 80 cents with as picture a scene from the film Turkish delight. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="331" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The music in the film was provided by composer and conductor Rogier van Otterloo which with Turkish delight debuted as a film music composer. Present the sounds of Toots Thielemans' harmonica. The LP with the music ( Louis van Dijk which the trio a contribution), sold well and was more than four months in the album listings. However, Verhoeven later admitted that it was never his favorite film music has become and that he is on the "drummetjes with from that wipe hassle" annoyed: "when I first heard, I was very depressed.";<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="170" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]

<p lang="en" len="434" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The hit girls with red hair by Arne Jansen from 1972 also came for in the film.