A Woman Like Eve: Living or Dead?

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By Euler Leaks

Updated 18 March 2023

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Artist	Joe Mabel
Credit	Photo by Joe Mabel
License	cc-by-2.5
Desc	Monique van de Ven attending a showing of her film Zomerhitte (Summer Heat), Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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Dutch film of 1979

A Woman Like Eve

Released	1979 (43 years, 10 months ago)

Director	Nouchka van Brakel
Genre	LGBT-related film
Composer	Laurens van Rooyen
Country of origin	Netherlands
Screenwriter	Judith Herzberg
Producer	Matthijs van Heijningen

About A Woman Like Eve

A Woman Like Eve (Dutch: Een vrouw als Eva) is a 1979 Dutch drama film about a woman who leaves her husband for another woman. The film was directed by Nouchka van Brakel; Monique van de Ven stars in the title role of Eve, with Peter Faber as her husband Ad and Maria Schneider as Liliane, who becomes Eve's lover. The plot focusses on the child custody battle that ensues after Eve leaves her husband.

The film had festival showings at FILMEX: Los Angeles International Film Exposition (Contemporary Cinema) (1980); San Francisco International Gay Film Festival (1981), and Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition's "Out on the Screen" Festival (1992). The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.