My wonderful life as a vegetable / directed and produced by Lars Feldballe.

My Wonderful Life as a Vegetable shares the story Birger Bergmann and his zeal for life. After developing the incurable degenerative neurological disease amyotrophic lateral schlerosis--also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease--Birger became fiercely determined to educate other ALS patients and their...

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Other Authors: Feldballe, Lars (Director, Producer)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 2012.
Series:Filmakers library online
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