Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me (2019)

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.

Date of release
2019-01-26
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (91)
Runtime
39m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas

Casting

  • 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 — Himself - Author and Journalist
  • Anne-Liis von Knorring — Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

Life Overtakes Me is a 2019 Swedish-American documentary film directed by Kristine Samuelson and John Haptas. The film shows how hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw into a coma-like illness called resignation syndrome, apparently because of traumatic experiences they had.

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