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Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping Sickness

IMDB:

6.4
Sleeping Sickness

Released

6/23/2011

Duration

1h 31m

Genre

Drama

Country

Cameroon

Cast

Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily

Overview

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.

Cast

Pierre Bokma

Ebbo Velten

Pierre Bokma

Jean-Christophe Folly

Alex Nzila

Jean-Christophe Folly

Jenny Schily

Vera Velten

Jenny Schily

Hippolyte Girardot

Gaspard Signac

Hippolyte Girardot

Maria Elise Miller

Helen Velten

Maria Elise Miller

Sava Lolov

Elia Todorov

Sava Lolov

Francis Noukiatchom

Dr. Monese

Francis Noukiatchom

Ali Mvondo Roland

Ruhemba

Ali Mvondo Roland

Isacar Yinkou

Joseph

Isacar Yinkou

Nathalie Richard

Unknown Role

Nathalie Richard

Thierry Hancisse

Unknown Role

Thierry Hancisse