The Cinema of the Berlin School
Sleeping Sickness
Ulrich Koehler, 2010, 91 min
Ebbo and Vera Velten have spent the past twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is managing a program to combat sleeping sickness in Cameroon. 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 a 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 country now remote to him increases with each day.
(Source: filmportal.de / 61. Berlin International Film Festival, Catalogue)
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Language: OV with English subtitles
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Part of series The Cinema of the Berlin School