Sleeping Sickness
2011, German. Directed by Ulrich Köhler.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 23 June 2011
- Original title
- Schlafkrankheit
- Country
- Cameroon, Germany, France, Netherlands
- Written by
- Ulrich Köhler
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Sleeping Sickness runs 91 minutes (1h 31m).
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Sleeping Sickness isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 23 June 2011. (Checked 3 November 2026.)
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If you liked Sleeping Sickness, try The Color of Friendship, In the Aisles, Home.
Who directed Sleeping Sickness?
Sleeping Sickness (2011) was directed by Ulrich Köhler and stars Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily.