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Sleeping Sickness

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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