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Life Overtakes Me (2019)

★ 6.5/10 39 min Documentary Sweden, United States English
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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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Top 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)

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