George Sluizer
George Sluizer ( born June 25, 1932 in Paris) is a Dutch film director.
Career
Sluizer studied at the film school in Paris from 1954 until 1956. Initial experience he gained as an assistant director Michael Anderson and Bert Haanstra. For Anderson in 1956, he worked in the hit movie Around the World in 80 Days. His first film was the short film 29minütige Country of human hands, for which he received a Silver Bear for a special price at the Berlinale 1961. Sluizer initially turned exclusively documentaries for television. In 1972 he made his feature film debut with the Dutch- Brazilian co-production Joao and the knife. This film he presented at the Berlinale 1972 competition.
He landed his biggest success with the thriller Vanishing, with the Dutch actress Johanna ter Steege international breakthrough. Sluizer had also wrote the screenplay from a novel by Tim Krabbé written about this film, which he then in 1993 under the title The Vanishing Hollywood starring Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis and Sandra Bullock filmed again.
In 1993, he turned with Dark Blood the last film in which River Phoenix had a role. However, he died before filming was finished. Sluizer present the film completed in 2012; The premiere took place at the Berlinale 2013.
With the films Utz and The Commissioner, he was seen again in 1998 in competition at the 1992 Berlinale and the Berlinale. In 2002 he filmed the novel The Stone Raft of Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.
In 1983 he won the Faculty Award of the Golden Calf.