Life Overtakes Me
First aired on Jan 26, 2019
Runtime: 39mins
70%
Genres: Documentary
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.
Featured Cast: click image to view more
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
Featured Crew
Kristine Samuelson | Director
John Haptas | Director
John Haptas | Producer
Bonni Cohen | Executive Producer
Peter Östlund | Drone Cinematographer
John Haptas | Director of Photography
