The Vanishing (1988)
Note: this print runs 90 minutes against a recorded 103 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Johanna ter Steege, Bernadette Le Saché, Gene Bervoets, Pierre Forget, Raphaëline Goupilleau, Roger Souza, Gwen Eckhaus
Directed by George Sluizer
The Vanishing (Dutch: Spoorloos, literally: "Without a Trace" or "Traceless"; French: L'homme qui voulait savoir, literally: "The Man Who Wanted to Know") is a 1988 psychological thriller film co-written and directed by George Sluizer, and starring Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, and Johanna ter Steege in her feature film debut. The film recounts a man's obsessive years-long search for his girlfriend after she mysteriously disappears from a rest area in the French countryside. The screenplay was adapted by Sluizer and Tim Krabbé from Krabbé's novella The Golden Egg (1984).
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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