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Documentary · 2019

Life Overtakes Me

2019 · 39m · TMDB 6.5/10

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.

Director
Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas
Cast
Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin, Elizabeth Hultcrantz, Gellert Tamas, Anne-Liis von Knorring
Released
2019

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