The French title may refer to 1953 film "The Sword and the Rose", and possibly also Paul Verhoeven's gruesome medieval film "Flesh & Blood" (1985) which is also known as "The Rose and the Sword".
A live show at Heaven in London was attended by Paul Verhoeven who asked the band to contribute to the soundtrack of his forthcoming movie Showgirls, alongside Prince, David Bowie & Nine Inch Nails.
The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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He has followed this with significant roles in the Paul Verhoeven directed Dutch movie Black Book and the big budget United States movies Flightplan, Valkyrie (in which he portrayed Colonel Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim) and the Academy Award-nominated Inglourious Basterds.
Johannes Adrianus Maria (Hans) van Tongeren (18 January 1955, Breda - 25 August 1982, Amsterdam) was a Dutch movie actor, who made his debut in the 1980 Paul Verhoeven movie Spetters.
Paul Verhoeven announced the name of the movie on 7 May 2012 on the television show De Wereld Draait Door.
It was the setting for the Dutch cult classic, Spetters, filmed by noted director Paul Verhoeven there in 1980.