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Life Overtakes Me

6.5201939mMovieDocumentary

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.

DirectorsKristine Samuelson·John Haptas
ProducersJohn Haptas·Kristine Samuelson

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Cast · Directed by Kristine Samuelson

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

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Life Overtakes Me is streaming on Netflix in India.

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