Sleeping Sickness (2011)
1h 31m
Running Time
June 22, 2011Release Date
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
1h 31m
Running Time
June 22, 2011Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
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
Ali Barkai
Jean-Marie
Ulrich Köhler
Director
Maren Ade
Producer
Janine Jackowski
Producer
Katrin Schlösser
Producer
Frans van Gestel
Producer
Patrick Orth
Cinematographer
Details.
Wiki.
Sleeping Sickness (German: Schlafkrankheit) is a 2011 German drama film, directed by Ulrich Köhler. It premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director.