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IMDB rating: 6.7

... aka Cathy Tippel (USA: promotional title)
... aka Girl Called Katy Tippel, A
... aka Hot Sweat
... aka Katie Tippel (USA: video title)
... aka Katie's Passion
... aka Keetje Tippel (USA)

Country: The Netherlands, 1975
Runtime: 100 minutes
Genre: Drama
Language: Dutch

Summary

Paul Verhoeven directed this film, a moving period drama, before he relocated to Hollywood. A true story set in 19th century Holland, Keetje Tippel (Monique van de Ven) is a young girl born into poverty whose mother takes her to work in a brothel. As men use her, so too, Katie decides, she can use them to obtain the social status she seeks. When she becomes the mistress of a young banker (Rutger Hauer), Keetje finds a foothold in the Dutch upper-class and uses it to wed one of the banker's wealthy friends. Once again, Verhoeven has crafted a riveting film where female sexuality is a weapon to be honed and used cunningly, as in Basic Instinct, resulting in an erotic, yet disturbing, drama that takes a dim view of capitalism and male dominated societies.
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Cast

Monique van de Ven .... Keetje Tippel
Peter Faber .... George
Rutger Hauer .... Hugo
Jennifer Willems .... Antoinette
Leo Beyers .... Man in washroom
Jan Blaaser .... Keetje's father
Theu Boermans .... Doctor
Huib Broos .... Manager of wax factory
Eddie Brugman .... Andre
Andrea Domburg .... Keetje's mother
Nelly Frijda .... Hair washer
Walter Kous .... Pierre
Hannah de Leeuwe .... Mina, Keetje's sister
Fons Rademakers .... Customer
Carry Tefsen .... Woman in wax factory
Dora van der Groen .... Mother Andre

Crew

Writing credits: Neel Doff (novel) and
Gerard Soeteman (screenplay)

Original music by Rogier van Otterloo

Cinematography by Jan de Bont

Production Companies

Rob Houwer Productions

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Trivia

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