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Sleeping Sickness

Name: Sleeping Sickness
Released: 2011

Schlafkrankheit

2011

A German doctor who has run a sleeping-sickness program in Cameroon for two decades finds himself unable to leave Africa even as his wife longs for home, while a young colleague arrives to assess his work. A cool, unsettling drama of dislocation.

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Part of 5 Movies Set in or About Cameroon

This film is stop 4 of 5 in the hand-ranked outside-view route set in or about Cameroon. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

This outside view can stamp Cameroon in the 196 country film challenge.