George Sluizer Trailers
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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, which was discontinued after the death of its lead actor River Phoenix (in 1993), but later completed and premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2012.
Most Popular George Sluizer Trailers
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15 March 1992
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 late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
22 February 1998
John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures.
27 September 2012
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 in the desert.
27 October 1988
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation when they stop at a busy service station. Saskia is abducted in broad daylight and three years pass with no answers or closure surrounding her disappearance.
02 March 1982
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 epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
05 February 1993
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
14 October 1971
Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
19 September 2002
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape.
01 February 1974
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, is reflective about a situation of political tension, violence and terror, is, nevertheless, a film about daily life.
01 August 1996
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
23 May 1979
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 relationship with the girl.
16 April 1968
For more than four centuries, young Portuguese fishermen have followed their fathers to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and in recent years to Greenland’s banks to fish the cold waters for cod.
01 November 1983
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 Muslim family from the refugee camp and a catholic family living in a downtown apartment.
14 February 1977
In 1974, two Dutch filmmakers made a film about two Palestinian families and their desire for recognition.
01 February 1980
Texas is the homeland of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, a plague to cattle, oilpipe engineers and everyone not on the alert.
11 October 1957
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 insurance agent.
09 December 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 as The Vanishing and Dark Blood who fully dedicated his life to cinema.
25 November 2010
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 mind for a long time.
01 June 1961
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 reclamation in the last five centuries.
01 January 1993
Documentary that looks back at 35 years of Dutch cinema, with Paul Verhoeven and others.
04 October 1958
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.
25 May 1985
Shooting begins on an adult western about a man who claims he was held captive in the desert for 20 years.
01 February 1970
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 two children.
01 April 1972
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 to make money, so she will at least have a good life.
10 May 1984
Born in Amsterdam in 1943, Paul, a Jewish man, attempts to locate his twin brother (or perhaps his alter ego), who was abducted forty years ago and sent to a Nazi concentration camp.
01 February 1963
The polder, main feature of the Dutch landscape, has a disconcerting effect on the traveller who comes across it.
26 April 1973
A little village. Between the loam huts, a new construction: the school. In the classroom, adults make a first attempt at writing.
27 May 2006
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.
18 October 1996
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 Portugal.
26 April 1973
The picture retraces the professional, social and family life of Zeca, a cow-boy from the northeast of Brazil.
