LIFE OVERTAKES ME (2019)
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Life Overtakes Me
Documentary
January 26, 2019
English
0h 39m
United States
Camera Stylo Films
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 & Characters
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)
Crew
Kristine Samuelson
Director
John Haptas
Director
John Haptas
Director of Photography
John Haptas
Producer
Kristine Samuelson
Producer
Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff
Executive Producer
Bonni Cohen
Executive Producer
Ariane Wu
Executive Producer