Life Overtakes Me(2019)
39 min · Documentary · Directed by Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
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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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US release dates
- Premiere
- January 26, 2019
- Digital
- June 14, 2019
Cast
- 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)
