Sleeping Sickness

Sleeping Sickness (2011)

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.

Director: Ulrich Köhler
Writer: Ulrich Köhler

Casts

	Pierre Bokma as Ebbo Velten
	Jean-Christophe Folly as Alex Nzila
	Jenny Schily as Vera Velten
	Hippolyte Girardot as Gaspard Signac
	Maria Elise Miller as Helen Velten
	Sava Lolov as Elia Todorov
	Francis Noukiatchom as Dr. Monese
	Ali Mvondo Roland as Ruhemba
	Isacar Yinkou as Joseph
	Nathalie Richard as
	Thierry Hancisse as

Crew