First-Time Viewing
Life Overtakes Me
Release Date:June 14, 2019
Running Time:39 min
Genres:Documentary
Directors
Cast
Henry AscherNadja HatemMikael BillingKarl SallinElizabeth HultcrantzGellert TamasAnne-Liis von Knorring
Top billed cast (via TMDB).
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Synopsis
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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Streaming
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