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Turkish Delight

Turks Fruit

1973

A brash, gifted young sculptor in Amsterdam looks back on his passionate, stormy love affair with a beautiful free spirit, a relationship as tender as it is destructive. Paul Verhoeven's raw, explicit, deeply romantic early hit.

Why it’s here

Paul Verhoeven’s breakthrough was named the best Dutch film of the twentieth century by the Netherlands Film Festival.

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