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Sleeping Sickness is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Ulrich Köhler released in USA on 8 october 2011 with Pierre Bokma

Sleeping Sickness (2011)

Sleeping Sickness
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Released in USA 8 october 2011
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginGerman
Genres Drama
Rating62% 3.1002553.1002553.1002553.1002553.100255

Sleeping Sickness (German: Schlafkrankheit) is a 2011 German drama film, directed by Ulrich Köhler. It premiered in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, where Köhler won the Silver Bear for Best Director.

Synopsis

Ebbo Velten works in Cameroon in a sleeping sickness aid project living with his wife. Their daughter, Helen, usually attending a boarding school in Wetzlar, Germany, visits them. There are few patients although the European financial aid is generous. Velten's family move back to Europe but he stays.

Actors

Pierre Bokma

(Ebbo Velten)Jean-Christophe Folly

(Alex Nzila)Hippolyte Girardot

(Gaspard Signac)Sava Lolov

(Elia Todorov)Thierry Hancisse
Nathalie Richard
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