Life Overtakes Me

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.

Country:

Sweden,

United States of America

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

39 minutes

Year:

2019

Director:

Kristine Samuelson

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Company:

Camera Stylo Films

Cast:

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

Herself - Immigration Attorney

Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

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

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

Crew:

Director

Director

Drone Cinematographer

Producer

Sound Designer