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Sleeping Sickness

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Original title

Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness)

Year

2011

Running time

91 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Ulrich Köhler

Screenwriter

Ulrich Köhler

Cast

Cinematography

Patrick Orth

Producer

Co-production Germany-France;

Komplizen Film, Ö-Filmproduktion, Why Not Productions, IDTV Film

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

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.

Awards: 2011: Berlin Film Festival: Official Selection

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Sleeping Sickness

2011

Ulrich Köhler

5.9

(155)