Life Overtakes Me

John Haptas
2019-01-26


6.5
39 min

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

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