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Sleeping Sickness
First aired on Jun 23, 2011
60%

Genres: Drama

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.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
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
Featured Crew
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Ulrich Köhler | Screenplay
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Ulrich Köhler | Director
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Katharina Wartena | Editor
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Eva Könnemann | Editor
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Birgitt Kilian | Costume Design
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Katrin Schlösser | Producer