Life Overtakes Me
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Life Overtakes Me

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.

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Cast

  • 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
    Gellert Tamas
    Himself - Author and Journalist
  • Anne-Liis von Knorring
    Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)

Crew

  • Kristine Samuelson
    Kristine Samuelson
    Director
  • John Haptas
    Director
  • Kristine Samuelson
    Kristine Samuelson
    Editor
  • Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff
    Executive Producer
  • Kristine Samuelson
    Kristine Samuelson
    Sound
  • John Haptas
    Editor
  • Bonni Cohen
    Bonni Cohen
    Executive Producer
  • Kristine Samuelson
    Kristine Samuelson
    Producer
  • John Haptas
    Producer
  • Joel Raabe
    Sound Editor
  • Peter Östlund
    Drone Cinematographer
  • John Haptas
    Director of Photography
  • Pete Horner
    Pete Horner
    Sound Designer
  • Ariane Wu
    Executive Producer

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