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Sleeping Sickness

06/23/2011

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1hr 31min

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Drama

STORY

Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the better part of the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness programme. His work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community. She can’t bear the separation from her 14-year-old daughter, Helen, who is attending boarding school in Germany. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or he risks losing the woman he loves. But his fear of returning to a land now remote to him increases with each passing day. Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. It’s been a long time since he set foot on this continent, but, instead of finding new prospects, he encounters a destructive, lost man. Like a phantom, Ebbo slips away from his evaluator.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Pierre Bokma
  • Jean-Christophe Folly
  • Jenny Schily
  • Hippolyte Girardot
  • Maria Elise Miller

    Directors

  • Ulrich Köhler
  • Eva Könnemann
  • Maren Ade
  • Jochen Dehn

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Komplizen Film
  • Why Not Productions
  • Ö-Filmproduktion
  • IDTV Film
  • ZDF

    Production Countries

  • Cameroon
  • Germany
  • France
  • Netherlands

LANGUAGES

  • German
  • French
  • Dutch

Cast

Pierre Bokma

Ebbo Velten

Jean-Christophe Folly

Alex Nzila

Jenny Schily

Vera Velten

Hippolyte Girardot

Gaspard Signac

Maria Elise Miller

Helen Velten

Sava Lolov

Elia Todorov

Francis Noukiatchom

Dr. Monese

Ali Mvondo Roland

Ruhemba

Isacar Yinkou

Joseph

Nathalie Richard

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