this be certainly an interesting study of a psychopathic killer and of the man who set out to track him down after his fiance disappear mysteriously at a gasoline stop in france . it be know in the english speaking world a the vanishing and be remake in 1993 with an american cast . without reveal the startling denouement and one can not explain the most attractive aspect of the film and which be the detailed study of both tracker and killer that occupy most of the last half . the unsatisfying part be that while we see many detail of these two men life and we be give little insight into their motivation . we have to piece it out for ourselves . that probably what the director want . madness and curiosity be obvious motivation and but not really enough . with these cavil and i will still say that spoorloos be at once terrify and grip and . and and well and amaze . it be well act but poorly photograph and edit . one suspect the director be of the sort who doesn not regard these thing a important .