Vanishing (Criterion Collection) - Foreign Films Classic Movies on DVD (1988) Starring Gene Bervoets; Directed by George Sluizer; Criterion : OLDIES.com

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Item Number:
CRIT 133D

DVD Features:

Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Package Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: Letterboxed - 1.66
Single Side - Dual Layer - RSDL

Audio:

Mono - French/Dutch

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 03/21/1991

"...[A] provocative and haunting thriller....A small gem..."

New York Times - 01/25/1991

"...[Sluizer] builds a disturbing horror story....Grim fascination to the very end..."

Los Angeles Times - 10/10/1990

"...THE VANISHING succeeds the old-fashioned way: by hooking us on characters and undercurrents, seducing us into a clean, logical nightmare..."

Product Description:

Three years after the mysterious abduction of his girlfriend while the two were on vacation, a man tracks down her kidnapper. The abductor, a seemingly normal professor who contacts the young man through the mail, is actually a cold-hearted clinician of terror. When her kidnapper promises to reveal the location of his lost loved one, their confrontation explodes.

Plot Synopsis:

After three years of searching for his mysteriously abducted girlfriend, a man tracks down the kidnapper who has been sending him mail, and confronts him.

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Production Notes:

George Sluizer directed an English-language, American-produced version of this film in 1993, starring Jeff Bridges.
Shown at the Montreal World Film Festival August 29, 1988.

Cast and Crew:

Starring		Gene Bervoets
Directed by		George Sluizer
Produced by		Anne Lordon & George Sluizer
Cinematography by		Toni Kuhn
Performer		Johanna Ter Steege & Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu

DVD Details:

Label: Criterion
Originally Released in: 1988
Number of Discs: 1
Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
Video: Color
Region: Region 1 encoding; USA & Canada.
Release Date: October 2, 2001
OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 39,052
Item UPC: 037429161623
Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx); Counts as 1 item(s) for International Shipping.

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