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.
00:42:05 I thought 600 would be...
00:48:00 He knew I would come today.
00:49:09 Stage 2?
00:49:57 I must speak with him.
00:53:05 Can't you just check the accounts for now?
00:54:24 Everything will be fine.
00:56:05 Did you give her glucose? - Yes.
00:59:50 Here you are.
01:01:20 Tomorrow you'll feel better.
01:04:00 Will you give me five minutes? - No rush.
01:05:23 And? What's the name?
01:08:48 She'll come next week.
01:10:10 Come on, have a look.
01:11:23 What would you do in my place?
01:17:40 It's a beautiful place.
01:18:39 Nobody does a better job than him.
01:19:54 I never wanted to end up this way.
01:25:19 English subtitles: A Huge Animal From The North