Life Overtakes Me (2019)
Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
- Released
- 2019-01-26
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 39 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 91 votes
Cast
- Henry Ascher as Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
- Nadja Hatem as Herself - Immigration Attorney
- Mikael Billing as Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
- Karl Sallin as Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
- Elizabeth Hultcrantz as Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
- Gellert Tamas as Himself - Author and Journalist
- Anne-Liis von Knorring as Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
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