Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

Released on
Documentary
Runtime
39 mins
(76 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Henry Ascher
  • Nadja Hatem
  • Mikael Billing
  • Karl Sallin
  • Elizabeth Hultcrantz
  • Gellert Tamas
  • Anne-Liis von Knorring

Director

  • Kristine Samuelson
  • John Haptas

Producers

  • John Haptas
  • Kristine Samuelson

Screenwriter

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