Film · 2019 · 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.
6 sources · verified moments ago
based on 92 votes
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.
7 principal 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
Himself - Author and Journalist
Anne-Liis von Knorring
Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
Life Overtakes Me (2019) is available to stream on Flicksy via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The 39m documentary directed by Kristine Samuelson is rated 6.5/10 by 92 viewers.
Life Overtakes Me was released on January 26, 2019.
Life Overtakes Me was directed by Kristine Samuelson.
Life Overtakes Me has a runtime of 39 minutes.
Life Overtakes Me is categorized as Documentary.
Similar films
Human Flow
2017
One Dollar a Day
2016
This Is Paris
2020
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
2018
The Hot Potato: The Road to Transformation
2013
Asylum
1998
Dyab
2016
First Things and Last Things
2018
Broken Places
2018
Curandera
2025
Flotel Europa
2015
To Be Heard
2019
A Day in Smara
2010
A Place Called Chiapas
1998
Refugee Conversations
2020
It Will be Chaos
2018
Um Crime Entre Nós
2020
Chaja & Mimi
2013
Prysia’s Garden
2015
Vi Ses Snart
2013
Flicksy