Sleeping Sickness(Schlafkrankheit)
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Germany, France, Netherlands · 2011
1h 31m
Director Ulrich Köhler
Starring Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot
Genre Drama
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Ebbo and Vera have spent the last twenty years living in different African countries. Ebbo is the manager of a sleeping sickness program, and his work is fulfilling. Vera, however, feels increasingly lost in Yaounde’s ex-pat community and can’t bear the separation from her daughter. Ebbo must give up his life in Africa or risk losing the woman he loves.
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