Life Overtakes Me (2019)
20190h 39mDocumentary
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.
Cast
- HHenry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
- NNadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
- MMikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
- KKarl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
- EElizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Gellert TamasHimself - Author and Journalist- AAnne-Liis von KnorringHerself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
Crew
- Directors
- Kristine SamuelsonJohn Haptas
- Cinematography
- John Haptas
Details
- Released
- January 26, 2019
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Camera Stylo Films
- IMDb
- tt9204606