Sleeping Sickness
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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
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Pierre Bokma
Ebbo Velten
Known for
The Resistance Banker
Cosmos Laundromat
Jean-Christophe Folly
Alex Nzila
Known for
Triangle of Sadness
To Each, Her Own
Jenny Schily
Vera Velten
Known for
Babylon Berlin
Hippolyte Girardot
Gaspard Signac
Known for
Irma Vep
Manon of the Spring
Maria Elise Miller
Helen Velten
No other roles listed
Sava Lolov
Elia Todorov
Known for
Yannick
Lady Chatterley
Francis Noukiatchom
Dr. Monese
No other roles listed
Ali Mvondo Roland
Ruhemba
Also in
Les pygmées de Carlo
Isacar Yinkou
Joseph
No other roles listed
Nathalie Richard
Known for
Young & Beautiful
Never Let Me Go
Thierry Hancisse
Known for
Midnight in Paris
Ares
Ulrich Köhler Director · Patrick Orth Cinematographer Katharina Wartena Editor
United States release October 8, 2011 · Produced in Cameroon, Germany, France, Netherlands · Languages Dutch, French, German
Production
Komplizen Film
Production
Why Not Productions
Production
Ö-Filmproduktion
Production
IDTV Film
Production
ZDF
Production
Das Kleine Fernsehspiel
Production
Cameroon · Germany · France · Netherlands
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Schlafkrankheit
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
Dutch · French · German
Release dates
Germany · February 12, 2011
Premiere · Berlin Film Festival
Germany · June 23, 2011
Theatrical
United States · October 8, 2011
Premiere · New York Film Festival
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