Caroline de Beus, Dolf de Vries, Geert de Jong

A tormented, alcoholic novelist (Jeroen Krabbe) who claims in his stories "lie the truth," is seduced by a fan in the audience at one of his speaking engagements. He soon finds himself trapped in a ni...( read more  read more... )ghtmare of blasphemy, bloodshed and bisexual desire. What's more, his recurrent visions/hallucinations tell him that this sexy widow may be a cold-blooded killer.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven

Release Date: March 24, 1983

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DVD Release Date: August 6, 2002

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  • June 25, 2009
    The German Body Heat with a Brunel-esque twist. Amazing cinematography by Jan de Bont
  • May 14, 2009
    No thanks - Not interested
  • February 22, 2009
    Before Basic Instinct. Verohoeven's most artisctally interesting film, making use of mise-en-scene to create a psychological thriller in which a lapsed Catholic appears to find his faith again under the weirdest of circumstances.
  • February 21, 2009
    want to see this because it won best foreign-language film with the LAFC and was nominated for best foreign film by NBR
  • February 18, 2009
    Il Protagonista di questo film è davvero atipico: scrittore, gay, profondamente cattolico, alcolista e visionario. Le vicende che intreccia questo insolito personaggio sono intrise di visioni, sia in riferimento alla religione, sia in riferimento alla sua sessualità sia mescolate...( read more) con il profano, il magico e la stregoneria. Un mix che mi ha profondamente colpito un horror senza dubbio originale, lugubre e surreale.
  • February 18, 2009
    Paul Verhoeven BEFORE Hollywood....Jeroen Krabbé also before ...hen played the bad in a James bond film
    many huge filmmakers from Europe who went to Hollywood , lost the art ...

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