Turkish Delight

Turks Fruit (1973)

Timing: 1:48 (108 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1973-02-22

Country

Netherlands

Production

Verenigde Nederlandsche Filmcompagnie (VNF), Rob Houwer Film Holland

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$800 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Paul Verhoeven

Actors

Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman, Wim van den Brink, Hans Boskamp, Dolf de Vries, Manfred de Graaf, Dick Scheffer, Marjol Flore, Bert Dijkstra
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Scenario

Producer

Rob Houwer

Operator

Jan de Bont

Composer

Artist

Audition

Hans Kemna

Editing

Jan Bosdriesz
All team (20)

• A more accurate translation of the title is "Turkish Delight".
• Director Paul Verhoeven and cinematographer Jan de Bont had just watched William Friedkin's thriller *The French Connection* (1971) and unanimously decided that their future film would ideally focus on realism with natural lighting, handheld camera work, and so on. However, after filming began, Verhoeven "backed down" and decided to return to shooting with stationary cameras and artificial lighting, as in his own 1971 film *Diary of a Hooker*. De Bont flatly refused to follow Verhoeven's instructions and shot the first scenes of the film as they had originally intended. This led to a quarrel between Verhoeven and de Bont, and three days after filming began, Verhoeven almost fired the cinematographer. However, seeing the first results of the shooting, he found the courage to admit that he was not right, but de Bont was.
• A more accurate translation of the title is “Turkish Delights”.
• Director Paul Verhoeven and cinematographer Jan de Bont had just watched William Friedkin’s thriller “The French Connection” (1971) and unanimously decided that for their future film, an emphasis on realism with natural lighting, handheld camera work, etc., would be ideal. However, after the start of filming, Verhoeven “backed down” and decided to return to shooting with stationary cameras and artificial lighting, as in his own 1971 film “Diary of a Hooker.” De Bont categorically refused to follow Verhoeven’s instructions and shot the first scenes of the film as they had originally envisioned. This led to a quarrel between Verhoeven and de Bont, and three days after the start of filming, Verhoeven almost fired the cinematographer. However, having seen the first results of the shooting, he found the courage to admit that he was wrong and that de Bont was right.