

The Vanishing
Who Has Seen This Woman?
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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- Released
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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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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
2- J8/10
John Chard
12/24/2013
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…
- C6/10
CRCulver
9/6/2018
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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