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Life Overtakes Me

01/26/2019

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0hr 39min

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Documentary

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Henry Ascher
  • Nadja Hatem
  • Mikael Billing
  • Karl Sallin
  • Elizabeth Hultcrantz

    Directors

  • Kristine Samuelson
  • John Haptas
  • Bonni Cohen

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Camera Stylo Films

    Production Countries

  • Sweden
  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • Ukrainian
  • Swedish
  • English

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)

Anne-Liis von Knorring

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

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