Life Overtakes Me
About 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.
Life Overtakes Me is a 2019 documentary film directed by John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson. Its themes are childhood trauma and refugee.
Henry Ascher stars as Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD), Nadja Hatem as Herself - Immigration Attorney, Mikael Billing as Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit, and Karl Sallin as Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD). At 39 minutes long, it arrived in January 2019.
In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.
TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 90 votes.