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Life Overtakes Me

  • 20192019
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 39m
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Henry Ascher in Life Overtakes Me (2019)
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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In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.
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    • John Haptas
    • Kristine Samuelson
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    • Henry Ascher
    • Nadja Hatem
    • Mikael Billing
    • John Haptas
    • Kristine Samuelson
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    • Nadja Hatem
    • Mikael Billing
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar

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    Henry Ascher
    • Self - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg
    • (as Henry Ascher MD)
    Nadja Hatem
    • Self - Immigration Attorney
    Mikael Billing
    • Self - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
    Karl Sallin
    • Self - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University
    • (as Karl Sallin MD)
    Elizabeth Hultcrantz
    • Self - Professor Emerita, Linköping University
    • (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
    Gellert Tamas
    • Self - Author and Journalist
    Anne-Liis von Knorring
    • Self - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University
    • (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
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      • Kristine Samuelson
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    6/10
    Interesting but bad executed
    While the issue is tragic and potentially extremely interesting, the documentary is quite lame. Basically almost its 40 minutes is silent footage of sleeping children and the backstory of the families is badly explained, the interviewer imho didn't do a very good job. The medical side of the question is left unexplored, just as the cultural one.
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      • June 14, 2019 (United States)
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      • Ukrainian
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      • Stylo Films
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