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    Sleeping Sickness

    91'

    2011-06-23

    6.4

    Drama

    Overview:

    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.

    DirectingUlrich KöhlerWritingUlrich Köhler

    Cast

    1

    Ebbo Velten

    Pierre Bokma

    1

    Alex Nzila

    Jean-Christophe Folly

    1

    Vera Velten

    Jenny Schily

    1

    Gaspard Signac

    Hippolyte Girardot

    1

    Helen Velten

    Maria Elise Miller

    1

    Elia Todorov

    Sava Lolov

    1

    Dr. Monese

    Francis Noukiatchom

    1

    Ruhemba

    Ali Mvondo Roland

    1

    Joseph

    Isacar Yinkou

    1

    Nathalie Richard

    1

    Thierry Hancisse

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. Cameroon
      2. Germany
      3. France
      4. Netherlands
    • List of languages:
      1. German
      2. French
      3. Dutch
    • List of companies:
      1. Komplizen Film
      2. Why Not Productions
      3. Ö-Filmproduktion
      4. IDTV Film
      5. ZDF
    • Vote Count: 15
    • Popularity: 0.3866
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:Schlafkrankheit

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