Life Overtakes Me

Name: Life Overtakes Me
Director: Kristine Samuelson
Genre: Documentary, Short
Released: 2019-06-14
Duration: 2340000 s
Rating: 10
Cast: Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing

Directed by Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas

2019 39m TV-PG

Documentary, Short

6.5100%71%

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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.

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Cast of Life Overtakes Me

Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Elizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Gellert TamasHimself - Author and Journalist
Anne-Liis von KnorringHerself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)