Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Sluizer (born 25 June 1932 in Paris, of Dutch and Norwegian parents; died 20 September 2014) was a Dutch filmmaker whose credits include features as well as documentary films. He is best known for directing two versions of The Vanishing, a 1988 Dutch-language release, originally titled Spoorloos, and a 1992 American version. Other feature films directed by Sluizer include Utz (1992) for producer John Goldschmidt, Crimetime (1995), and Dark Blood, wh...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Sluizer Speaks
2014
Some doctors say he won't last another day but still he keeps making films. Sluizer Speaks tells the story of George Sluizer, director of such films a...
Dark Blood
2012
Director
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site i...
Homeland
2010
as Self (Narrator)
After a near-death experience due to an aneurisma, director George Sluizer felt he had to go on filming and started research for a project he had in m...
Homeland
2010
Director, Story, Producer
After a near-death experience due to an aneurisma, director George Sluizer felt he had to go on filming and started research for a project he had in m...
Final 24: River Phoenix
2006
as Self - Director, Dark Blood
Final 24 recreates River Phoenix's last day to tell the tragic tale of a young man whose short life was dominated by the constant pressure to perform.
The Stone Raft
2002
Writer, Producer, Director
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the Europ...
The Commissioner
1998
Director, Screenplay
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for hi...
Dying to Go Home
1996
Writer, Director, Producer
A Portuguese imigrant in Holland dies in an accident and is buried in Amsterdam. But his soul will not rest in peace until his body is carried back to...
Crimetime
1996
as American Director
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
Crimetime
1996
Executive Producer, Director
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
The Vanishing
1993
Director
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
Utz
1992
Director
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the l...
The Vanishing
1988
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of ...
Red Desert Penitentiary
1985
as Kemheim
Hollywood movie making types are spoofed.
Red Desert Penitentiary
1985
Writer, Producer, Director
Hollywood movie making types are spoofed.
Bastille
1984
as Clochard / Eerste taxichauffeur
Bastille
1984
Producer
Adios Beirut
1983
Director
In 1974, George Sluizer and Fred van Kuijk made Land of the Fathers, a film about two Palestinian families and the new diaspora of Palestinians: a Mus...
Fitzcarraldo
1982
Production Manager
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an ...
Sweetwater Junction
1980
Director, Editor
Texas is the homeland of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, a plague to cattle, oilpipe engineers and everyone not on the alert. At Sweetwater’s ann...
Twice a Woman
1979
Director, Screenplay, Producer
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationshi...
A Reason to Go
1977
Sound, Editor, Director
In 1974, two Dutch filmmakers made a film about two Palestinian families and their desire for recognition. At the end of the civil war in Lebanon, the...
Land of the Fathers
1974
Director
Land of the Fathers is a film about the followers behind the Palestinian guerillas, is a film about two families driven from their rightful territory,...
Letters
1973
Director, Sound
A little village. Between the loam huts, a new construction: the school. In the classroom, adults make a first attempt at writing. At home,the childre...
Zeca, portret van een Vaqueiro
1973
Director, Sound
The picture retraces the professional, social and family life of Zeca, a cow-boy from the northeast of Brazil. From the most perfect calm he can fly i...
João and the Knife
1972
Producer, Director, Writer
Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior t...
Stamping Ground
1971
Director
Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The Raft
1970
Editor, Sound, Director
An intimate account of a thousand kilometer journey on a river in the Northeast of Brazil on a self-made raft carrying a small household including tw...
The Lonely Dorymen
1968
Director
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenla...
Clair-Obscur
1963
Director
The polder, main feature of the Dutch landscape, has a disconcerting effect on the traveller who comes across it. In the film a young man begins to ex...
Hold Back the Sea
1961
Scenario Writer, Director
Holland is threatened from all sides by water. The film tells about the creation of Holland millions of years ago, the history and methods of land re...
Fanfare
1958
Assistant Director
In the small Dutch village of Lagerheide, two members of the local brass band get into a fight, forcing the band to be split in two. The two hotheads ...
Kleren maken de man
1957
Assistant Director, Writer
A secret document, a stolen dress suit, two dimwitted crooks, the love of a man for a woman. It all results in a roller coaster ride for a young insur...