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SLEEPING SICKNESS (SCHLAFKRANKHEIT) (Past Film)
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Completed - Drama - 91 minutes

Year of production : 2011

Director(s) : Ulrich KÖHLER
Writer(s) : Ulrich KÖHLER
Cast : Pierre BOKMA, Jean-Christophe FOLLY, Jenny SCHILLY, Hippolyte GIRARDOT, Maria Elise MILLER, Sava LOLOV, Francis NOUKIATCHOM, Ali Mvondo ROLAND, Isacar YINKOU

Producer(s) : Janine JACKOWSKI (Komplizen Film), Maren ADE (Komplizen Film), Katrin SCHLÖSSER (Ö Film Produktion)

Synopsis

Ebbo and Vera Velten have been living in Africa for a long time. Ebbo is managing a sleeping sickness program. His work is fulfilling. In contrast, Vera feels increasingly uncomfortable with her life in the international community of Yaoundé and the separation from her daughter Helen, 14, who is attending boarding school in Germany.
Ebbo has to give up his life in Africa if he doesn’t want to lose the women he loves. But he has become a stranger to Europe. His fear of returning increases from day to day.
Years later. Alex Nzila, a young French doctor of Congolese origin, travels to Cameroon to evaluate a development project. He hasn’t been to Africa for a long time. 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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Country(ies) : FRANCE

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