George Sluizer

George Sluizer

1932-06-25 Paris, France 33 Credits

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...

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Sluizer Speaks

Sluizer Speaks

2014

Acting

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

Dark Blood

2012

Director

5.8
Directing

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

Homeland

2010

as Self (Narrator)

Acting

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

Homeland

2010

Director, Story, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

Final 24: River Phoenix

2006

as Self - Director, Dark Blood

Acting

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

The Stone Raft

2002

Writer, Producer, Director

5.2
Writing Producing Directing

An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the Europ...

The Commissioner

The Commissioner

1998

Director, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

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

Dying to Go Home

1996

Writer, Director, Producer

6.2
Writing Directing Producing

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

Crimetime

1996

as American Director

4.0
Acting

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

Crimetime

Crimetime

1996

Executive Producer, Director

4.0
Producing Directing

The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.

The Vanishing

The Vanishing

1993

Director

6.1
Directing

The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.

Utz

Utz

1992

Director

5.4
Directing

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

The Vanishing

1988

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.5
Directing Producing Writing

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

7.0
Acting

Hollywood movie making types are spoofed.

Red Desert Penitentiary

1985

Writer, Producer, Director

7.0
Writing Producing Directing

Hollywood movie making types are spoofed.

Bastille

Bastille

1984

as Clochard / Eerste taxichauffeur

6.0
Acting
Bastille

Bastille

1984

Producer

6.0
Producing

Adios Beirut

1983

Director

Directing

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

Fitzcarraldo

1982

Production Manager

7.6

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

Directing

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

Twice a Woman

1979

Director, Screenplay, Producer

4.1
Directing Writing Producing

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

Directing

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

Directing

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

Directing

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

Zeca, portret van een Vaqueiro

1973

Director, Sound

9.0
Directing

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

João and the Knife

1972

Producer, Director, Writer

Producing Directing Writing

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

Stamping Ground

1971

Director

6.7
Directing

Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Raft

The Raft

1970

Editor, Sound, Director

10.0
Directing

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

7.0
Directing

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

Directing

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

Hold Back the Sea

1961

Scenario Writer, Director

Writing Directing

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

Fanfare

1958

Assistant Director

7.2
Directing

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

Kleren maken de man

1957

Assistant Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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...