Sleeping Sickness

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Pierre Bokma

Ebbo Velten

Age : 68 | Popularity : 3%

Jean-Christophe Folly

Alex Nzila

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jenny Schily

Vera Velten

Age : 56 | Popularity : 4%

Hippolyte Girardot

Gaspard Signac

Age : 68 | Popularity : 11%

Maria Elise Miller

Helen Velten

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Sava Lolov

Elia Todorov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Francis Noukiatchom

Dr. Monese

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ali Mvondo Roland

Ruhemba

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Katrin Schlösser Janine Jackowski Maren Ade
	Casting	Kris Portier de Bellair Ulrike Müller
Camera	Director of Photography	Patrick Orth
Writing	Screenplay	Ulrich Köhler
Directing	Director	Ulrich Köhler
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Birgitt Kilian
Sound	Sound Designer	Tobias Peper
Editing	Editor	Katharina Wartena Eva Könnemann
Art	Production Design	Jochen Dehn
Department	Role	Name

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