Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

39 mins | Documentary | Jan. 26, 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.

Life Overtakes Me

39 mins | Documentary | Jan. 26, 2019

Life Overtakes Me
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Camera Stylo Films
Original title Life Overtakes Me
Directors Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
Writers

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)