FILM SCREENING SPOORLOOS
WITH Q&A GEORGE SLUIZER & JOHANNA TER STEEGE

SATURDAY 20 APRIL - 3:30 PM - DE BALIE, AMSTERDAM

Tickets are available at the door at De Balie or via the website: http://debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?articleid=475776

Without a trace

A young couple is on their way to their holiday destination in France. During a stop at a gas station, the girl disappears. Her boyfriend, obsessed with her disappearance, must and will find out what happened. George Sluizer adapted Tim Krabbé's *Het Gouden Ei* into a film starring Johanna ter Steege and Gene Bervoets, and gained his international fame with it.

George Sluizer

He began in the 1960s as Bert Haanstra's assistant and is internationally one of the best-known Dutch directors. He is known for 10 titles, the most famous of which are Spoorloos (1988), The Vanishing (1992), Twee Vrouwen (1979), João en het Mes (1972), and Dark Blood (1993–2012). During the filming of the latter, River Phoenix (the lead actor along with Jonathan Pryce and Judy Davis) died, resulting in the footage remaining untouched for 19 years.

Johanna ter Steege

In 1987, Ter Steege was asked to play a role in the film Spoorloos. For this, she received the European Film Award for Best Supporting Actress. Since then, she has traveled all over the world, acted in various languages, and worked with famous directors such as Robert Altman (Vincent & Theo), István Szabó (Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe), Heddy Honigmann (Tot Ziens/Goodbye, Best Actress in Locarno), and Bruce Beresford (Paradise Road). Ter Steege has worked with actors such as Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Isabella Rossellini, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Stanley Kubrick considered Johanna ter Steege the best actress in the world when he cast her in the film Aryan Papers. He chose her over Julia Roberts, who had been put forward by the studios. Incidentally, the film was never made because the subject matter—the Holocaust—made Kubrick too depressed. Furthermore, Spielberg's Schindler's List had just been released, and Kubrick did not dare to take on the adventure.

De Balie is organizing the screening of Spoorloos in support of the crowdfunding campaign for the documentary Sluizer Speaks.

http://www.cinecrowd.nl/sluizer-speaks

Tickets are available at the door at De Balie or via the website: http://debalie.nl/artikel.jsp?articleid=475776

Your contribution and presence are greatly appreciated. Help us make Sluizer Speaks a reality. Thank you in advance.

SATURDAY 20 APRIL - 3:30 PM - DE BALIE, AMSTERDAM

Location
Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10



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