George Sluizer

Film director
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Quick Facts

IntroFilm director
PlacesNetherlands
wasFilm director Screenwriter Film producer
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth25 June 1932, Paris, Île-de-France, France
Death20 September 2014Amsterdam, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (aged 82 years)
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Biography

George Sluizer (25 June 1932 – 20 September 2014) was a Dutch filmmaker whose credits included features as well as documentary films.

Career

He was best known for directing two versions of The Vanishing, a 1988 Dutch-language release, originally titled Spoorloos, and the 1993 American version. Other feature films directed by Sluizer included Utz (1992) for producer John Goldschmidt, Crimetime (1995), and Dark Blood, which was discontinued after the death of its lead actor River Phoenix, but later completed and premiered at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2012. The film was shown two more times publicly on 2 October 2012 at the same festival.

Director Dennis Alink made a documentary called Sluizer Speaks during the final years of Sluizer's life. It premiered two months after his death at the IDFA in Amsterdam.

Accusations against Ariel Sharon

Sluizer was accused by Israeli officials of a 'modern blood libel' for his claims – which in 2010 finally achieved front page level publicity in Israel – that he had witnessed the then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon personally shooting two Palestinian children from close range near the Sabra-Shatilla refugee camp in 1982.

Filmography

Sluizer at the Miami International Film Festival premiere of Dark Blood in 2013

As director

YearTitleEnglish titleNotes
1961De Lage Landen
1971Stamping GroundDirected with Hansjürgen Pohland
1972João en het mesJoão and the knifeEntered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival
1979Twee Vrouwen (nl)Twice a Woman
1982Tepito SiShort film
1983Adios Beirut
1985Red Desert PenitentiaryRed Desert Penitentiary
1988SpoorloosThe Vanishing
1992UtzUtzEntered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival
1993Dark BloodDark BloodCompleted in 2012. Entered into the 32nd Netherlands Film Festival
1993The VanishingThe VanishingRemake of Spoorloos
1996CrimetimeCrimetime
1996Mortinho por Chegar a CasaDying to Go HomeDirected with Carlos da Silva
1998The CommissionerThe CommissionerEntered into the 48th Berlin International Film Festival
2002La Balsa de piedraThe Stone Raft
2009The Chosen OneThe Chosen One
2010HomelandHomeland
2012Dark BloodDark Blood
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