Rutger Hauer's first lead: a sailor's revenge fantasy becomes his own drowning.
Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.
Acting
Hauer's raw, pre-stardom desperation carries every frame.
Direction
Hoven's sleazy Amsterdam locations feel authentically lived-in.
Director
Adrian Hoven
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot as 'Das Mädchen mit den Feuerhänden' but released abroad as 'Dandelions' to sound more poetic. It didn't help.
This 1974 Dutch-German co-production captures Europe's post-1968 hangover: idealism dead, hedonism hollow, men still blaming women.
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