Schlafkrankheit (2011)
Sleeping Sickness
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.
Casting arrow_drop_down
as Ebbo Velten
as Alex Nzila
as Vera Velten
as Gaspard Signac
as Helen Velten
as Elia Todorov
as Dr. Monese
as Ruhemba
as Joseph
as
as
Crew arrow_drop_down
Screenplay
Director
Editor
Editor
Costume Design
Producer
Producer
Producer
Sound Designer
Casting
Director of Photography
Casting
Production Design
