Sleeping Sickness
2011 · 91 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 718 VOTES · DIR. Ulrich Köhler
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 373 lines
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00:35:01 Is it the situation better today?
00:36:12 But yellow fever is no longer existing in fact.
00:37:06 And makes depressed.
00:38:13 I was just a question.
00:39:42 This can't be the right car to pick me up.
00:40:44 No, it's fine. I found a room.
00:41:59 I'm sorry.
00:47:57 The date was confirmed a few weeks ago.
00:49:01 Of course we have the sleeping sickness. Come on.
00:49:56 Yes.
00:53:02 Honestly, I don't know.
00:54:22 Lie on the side.
00:56:00 Are you there?
00:59:35 How's the baby?
01:01:09 This is my first job.
01:03:54 Our team does screening in a village today.
01:05:17 He tells me how I should work!
01:08:14 My wife is in Germany.
01:09:59 You want to look yourself?
01:11:14 Do you want water?
01:14:31 In ten years, when we are dead.
01:18:31 No, I'm writing a report.
01:19:27 I'll go back, do what you want.
01:24:11 Where is Velten?