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Life Overtakes Me
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Life Overtakes Me

Jan 26, 2019
0h 39m
★ 6.5

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Camera Stylo Films

Cast

Henry Ascher

Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)

Henry Ascher

Nadja Hatem

Herself - Immigration Attorney

Nadja Hatem

Mikael Billing

Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

Mikael Billing

Karl Sallin

Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)

Karl Sallin

Elizabeth Hultcrantz

Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)

Elizabeth Hultcrantz

Gellert Tamas

Himself - Author and Journalist

Gellert Tamas

Anne-Liis von Knorring

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

Anne-Liis von Knorring

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