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Sleeper's Wake

South Africa

2012

94 Min
Color
English, Afrikaans
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DIR Barry Berk

EXEC Ronnie Apteker

PROD Ken Kaplan

SCR Barry Berk

DP Willie Nel

CAST Lionel Newton, Deon Lotz, Jay Anstey, Luke Tyler

ED Vuyani Sondlo

MUSIC Daniel Caleb, Jamie Matthes

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), London (First Feature Competition)

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John Wraith, a man in his mid-40s, regains consciousness in hospital. His wife and daughter were killed in a car accident because he fell asleep at the wheel. He retreats to a remote coastal hamlet to heal, but finds himself embroiled in a dangerous relationship with a beautiful and unpredictable 17-year-old girl. –TIFF

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Super Slick Trailer For South African Psycho-Sexual Thriller SLEEPER'S WAKE

By Twitchfilm.com on August 26, 2012
Adapted from an acclaimed novel, Barry Berk’s Sleeper’s Wake presents something international audiences are not at all used to seeing come out of Africa: A dark, slickly shot psycho sexual thriller that
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