Life Overtakes Me (2019)

01/26/2019 (SE) • Documentary • 39m

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.

Life Overtakes Me (2019)

01/26/2019 (SE) • 39m

Documentary

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.

Top Billed 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)

Elizabeth Hultcrantz

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

Himself - Author and Journalist

Anne-Liis von Knorring

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

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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Keywords

refugee

childhood trauma

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