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Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

2019·Movie·39m

Documentary

6.5 / 10 (91 votes)

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.

Directed by
Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
Original language
English
Released
26 January 2019

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Cast

  • HA

    Henry Ascher

    Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)

  • NH

    Nadja Hatem

    Herself - Immigration Attorney

  • MB

    Mikael Billing

    Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

  • KS

    Karl Sallin

    Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)

  • EH

    Elizabeth Hultcrantz

    Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)

  • Gellert Tamas

    Gellert Tamas

    Himself - Author and Journalist

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    Anne-Liis von Knorring

    Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)