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Life Overtakes Me
2019 Directed by Kristine SamuelsonHundreds 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.
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)
Director
...........................................................Kristine Samuelson
John Haptas
Executive Producer
...........................................................Bonni Cohen
Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff
Ariane Wu
Producer
...........................................................John Haptas
Kristine Samuelson
Production Companies
...................................................Camera Stylo Films
Production Countries
........................................................Sweden
United States of America
Spoken Languages
....................................................English
svenska
Український
Genres
....................................................Documentary
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