''Sleeper'' (german: Schläfer) is a 2005 Austrian-German
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Benjamin Heisenberg. It was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
2005 Cannes Film Festival
The 58th Cannes Film Festival started on 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005. Twenty movies from 13 countries were selected to compete. The awards were announced on 21 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Belgian film '' L'Enfant'' by Dardenne brothers. ...
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Cast
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Bastian Trost - Johannes Mehrveldt
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Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor.
Biography
Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou.
He start ...
- Farid Atabay
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Loretta Pflaum - Beate Werner
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Gundi Ellert
Gundi Ellert (born 8 September 1951 in Lengenfeld, East Germany) is a German television actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the t ...
- Frau Wasser
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Wolfgang Pregler - Professor Behringer
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Charlotte Eschmann - Johannes' Grandmother
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Ludwig Bang - Secret service agent
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Masayuki Akiyoshi - Fei Li
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Marco Schuler - Robert Königsbauer
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Jürgen Geißendörfer - Markus
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Dominik Dudy - LAN-student
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Andrea Faciu - Singer
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Gordana Stevic - Mrs. Stevic
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Christine Böhm - Mrs. Schmid
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Anke Euler - Animal Nurse
References
External links
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2005 films
Austrian drama films
German drama films
2000s German-language films
2005 drama films
Films directed by Benjamin Heisenberg
2000s German films
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