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Life Overtakes Me

2019 6.5 39 min Documentary

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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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Released
First released
2019
Runtime
39 minutes
Original language
EN
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Featured 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

Gellert Tamas

Himself - Author and Journalist

Anne-Liis von Knorring

Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)