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The Vanishing

Who Has Seen This Woman?

7.4(900)19881h 46m6

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. Rex has nearly given up all hope when he suddenly begins receiving letters from her abductor.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • loss of loved one
  • kidnapping
  • roadhouse
  • disappearance
  • missing person
  • mysterious disappearance
  • search for wife
  • baffled
  • distressing

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Produced in

Netherlands, France, Germany

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR25 Jan 1991
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1 Jun 1990
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM10 May 1990
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereMontréal Film Festival29 Aug 1988
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical12Visa CNC 6770420 Dec 1989
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical1227 Oct 1988
    • Physical12DVD1 Dec 2002
    • Theatrical1213 Jun 2024
  • PolandPL

    • Theatrical (limited)27 Feb 2026
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical15 Mar 1991
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical22 Dec 1988
  • TürkiyeTR

    • Theatrical18 Sept 1993

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The Vanishing was released on 27 October 1988.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    12/24/2013

    8/10

    Traceless. Spoorloos (AKA: The Vanishing) is directed by George Sluizer and Sluizer co-adapts the screenplay with Tim Krabbe from Krabbe’s own novella The Golden Egg. It stars Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege and Gwen Eckhaius. Music is by Hennie Vrienten and cinematography by Toni Kuhn. It’s a lesson in creeping unease, a film firmly interested in character development as it unfurl…

  • C

    CRCulver

    9/6/2018

    6/10

    George Sluizer's 1988 film <i>Spoorloos</i> (The Vanishing) is the story of a murder and the search for the killer, but it's not a whodunit for the audience at any rate. Just after Saskia (Johanna ter Steege) disappears at a French rest stop while vacationing with her boyfriend Rex (Gene Bervoets), the audience sees the long chronicle of local chemistry teacher Raymond Lemorne (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) preparing to …

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