Life Overtakes Me (2019)

Life Overtakes Me (2019)

2019-01-26 Sweden, United States of America 39 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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

Henry Ascher is Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Nadja Hatem is Herself - Immigration Attorney
Herself - Immigration Attorney
Mikael Billing is Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Karl Sallin is Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Elizabeth Hultcrantz is Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Gellert Tamas is Himself - Author and Journalist
Himself - Author and Journalist
Anne-Liis von Knorring is Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)