Directed by:
Ulrich KöhlerCinematography:
Patrick OrthCast:
Pierre Bokma, Jean-Christophe Folly, Jenny Schily, Hippolyte Girardot, Thierry Hancisse, Leonie Kranzle, Sava LolovPlots(1)
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.
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Pierre Bokma
France
Best movies:
Prospero's Books (1991)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
Interview (2003)
Jean-Christophe Folly
Best movies:
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Eden Is West (2009)
35 Shots of Rum (2008)
Jenny Schily
West Germany
Best movies:
The Strange Little Cat (2013)
The Legend of Rita (2000)
Dark Woods (2020) (series)
Hippolyte Girardot
France
Best movies:
Manon of the Spring (1986)
L'Amour nu (1981)
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Thierry Hancisse
Belgium
Best movies:
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Le Couperet (2005)
The Age of Reason (2010)
Leonie Kranzle
Germany
Best movies:
Sleeping Sickness (2011)
2 Days in Paris (2007)
The Crocodiles: All for One (2011)
Sava Lolov
Best movies:
Yannick (2023)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Toni Erdmann (2016)