Life Overtakes Me

  • Documentary
1/26/2019
39

Storyline

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.

Directors:
Kristine Samuelson
John Haptas
    • refugee
    • childhood trauma

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    Cast

    • Henry Ascher
      Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
    • Nadja Hatem
      Herself - Immigration Attorney
    • Mikael Billing
      Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
    • Karl Sallin
      Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
    • Elizabeth Hultcrantz
      Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
    • Gellert Tamas
      Himself - Author and Journalist
    • Anne-Liis von Knorring
      Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)

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