Film
Life Overtakes Me
2019Directed by Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
Where to watch
Stream
- Netflix
- Netflix Standard with Ads
- Released
- Runtime
- 39m
About Life Overtakes Me
- 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.
- Directors
- Kristine Samuelson
- John Haptas
Principal cast
In billing order- Henry AscherHimself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
- Nadja HatemHerself - Immigration Attorney
- Mikael BillingHimself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
- Karl SallinHimself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
- Elizabeth HultcrantzHerself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
- Gellert TamasHimself - Author and Journalist
