Life Overtakes Me (2019)

Life Overtakes Me

2019

Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

John Haptas

Kristine Samuelson

Cast

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

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

Gellert Tamas as Himself - Author and Journalist

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

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

Mikael Billing as Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit

Nadja Hatem as Herself - Immigration Attorney