Life Overtakes Me

Directed by Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
TV-PG
June 14, 2019    39mDocumentary, Short
6.5100%72%6.5
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.
  • 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)
  • Kristine SamuelsonDirector / Producer / Editor / Sound
  • John HaptasDirector / Producer / Director Of Photography / Editor
  • Bonni CohenExecutive Producer
  • Lisa Kleiner-ChanoffExecutive Producer
  • Ariane WuExecutive Producer
  • Pete HornerSound Designer
  • Joel RaabeSound Editor

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