Life Overtakes Me 2019

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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.

Release Date 2019-01-26
Runtime 39m
Directors Kristine Samuelson, John Haptas, John Haptas
Producers Kristine Samuelson, Bonni Cohen, Lisa Kleiner-Chanoff, John Haptas, Ariane Wu
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