The Vanishing - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Vanishing"
Spoorloos (1988)
Timing:
1:46 (106 min)
7.4/10
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7.202/10
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7.6/10
55000
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Anne Lordon
Producer
Editor
Lin Friedman
Editor
Art Direction
Santiago Isidro Pin
Art Direction
Costume Design
Sophie Dussaud
Costume Design
Makeup Artist
Léone Noël
Makeup Artist
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Joop Pieëte
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Original Music Composer
Henny Vrienten
Original Music Composer
Director of Photography
Toni Kuhn
Director of Photography
Hairstylist
Beppie van de Berg
Hairstylist
Screenplay
Novel
Sound Designer
Piotr van Dijk
Sound Designer
What's left behind the scenes
- Tim Krabbe, the author of the source novel 'The Golden Egg' (1984) and the screenplay for George Sluizer's (1932-2014) film based on it, 'The Vanishing' (1988), based the plot on a newspaper article he once read about a tourist who disappeared after buying chewing gum at a gas station during a bus stop in France. Police searched for two days, but the woman was never found. Ten years later, Krabbe conducted his own investigation and discovered that the woman had been found alive and well the very next day, simply having gotten on the wrong bus after the stop. Krabbe even called her to thank her for the story.
- During filming, the money allocated for the cast and crew's meals ran out, and George Sluizer had to turn to representatives of the French criminal underworld for help. They lent him the money, but stated that the debt would have to be repaid, or he would face problems.
- In 1988, the film was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film representing Denmark, but it was disqualified because it contained too much dialogue in French to qualify for the Danish submission.
- Director George Sluizer filmed an alternate ending in which Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character is caught by the police. However, this ending was never used or shown, as the director decided it diminished the impact of the previous scenes.
- Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (1949-2010) employed somewhat unconventional methods when working with actors. He deliberately started a fight with Gene Bervoets shortly before filming the scene where their characters fight, to make Bervoets' anger appear as genuine and natural as possible, and in the scene where he gives drugs to Johanna ter Steege's character, he held her so tightly that she couldn't breathe, and she genuinely experienced a panic attack.
- Gene Bervoets was actually locked in a real coffin and the coffin was piled high with sandbags to prevent him from escaping, ensuring his attempts to save himself didn't appear contrived.
- In 1988, the film was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film from the Netherlands, but it was disqualified due to the large number of lines spoken in French.
- Director George Sluizer shot an alternative ending to the film in which Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu's character is caught by the police. However, this ending was never used or shown, as the director decided it diminished the impact of the preceding scenes.
- In 1988, the film was submitted for the "Oscar" award in the "Best Foreign Language Film" category from the Netherlands, but it was disqualified, with the stated reason being that it contained too much dialogue in French.
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