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Name: Life Overtakes Me
Director: Kristine Samuelson
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-01-26
Duration: 39 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin, Elizabeth Hultcrantz

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About the film

Audience score

★ 6.5 /10

based on 91 votes

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.

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Cast

7 principal cast

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)

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Life Overtakes Me (2019) is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The 39m documentary directed by Kristine Samuelson is rated 6.5/10 by 91 viewers.