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TITLE Breathing Lessons (1996)

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DISABILITY Polio

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 40

GENRE Documentary

DIRECTOR Jessica Yu

CAST

NOTES Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien



Mark O'Brien lives most of the time in an iron lung the result of

polio and post-polio. He is now in his forties. This film is a

documentary about his life made by Jessica Yu and it won an

Academy Award. Much of the film is O'Brien talking about his

everyday life and a bunch of things from religion to sex.

More information from:

http://www.pacificnews.org/marko/breathing-lessons.html

Comments on film at

www.exploremaine.com/~io20742/upmain.html

Mark O'Brien died earlier this year (99).

 


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