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:
A Girl Called Katy Tippel (1975)
The Sensualist (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)
Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)
Tonny Huurdeman
Netherlands
Best movies:
Dexter the Dragon & Bumble the Bear (1983)
The Sensualist (1973)
Wim van den Brink
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Hans Boskamp
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (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)
The Sensualist (1973)
Manfred de Graaf
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
The Lift (1983)
Dick Scheffer
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
The Lift (1983)
Marjol Flore
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Bert Dijkstra
Indonesia
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Bert André
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Woman in a Twilight Garden (1979)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Jon Bluming
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Vincent and Me (1990)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
Paul Brandenburg
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Suze Broks
Netherlands
Best movies:
A Girl Called Katy Tippel (1975)
The Sensualist (1973)
Truus Dekker
Netherlands
Best movies:
A Girl Called Katy Tippel (1975)
The Sensualist (1973)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Olga Zuiderhoek
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
The Northerners (1992)
The Dress (1996)
Jaap van Donselaar
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Reinier Heidemann
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Joost Prinsen
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Hans Kemna
Netherlands
Best movies:
The Sensualist (1973)
Love Is All (2007)
Any Special Way (1971)