CinemaOSMovie · 2009 · 1h 29m

The Genius and the Boys

60%(2)IMDbTV MovieDocumentary

D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea. He was a star of the scientific world. Over his years working amongst the tribes of the South Seas, he adopted 57 kids, bringing them to a new life in Washington DC. His adoptions were hailed as wonderful fatherly beneficence. But, at the height of his career, rumours began to spread he was a paedophile. Gajdusek would argue that if sex with children was okay in their own cultures, he wasn't wrong to join in. How could a great mind like Gajdusek's lose insight so totally, and why would the scientific community to which he was a hero be so quick to leap to his defence and dismiss the allegations? (Storyville)

Directed byBosse Lindquist

Status: Released
Runtime: 1h 29m
Language: SV
Released: November 20, 2009

Studios

BBC Storyville

Svenska Filminstitutet

ARTE GEIE

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited

Starring

Bosse Lindquist

Bosse Lindquist

Narrator

Michael Alpers

Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

Warwick Anderson

Professor in Medical Anthropology

Sena Anua

Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

Robert Gajdusek

Brother

Robert Gallo

Robert Gallo

Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV

Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks

Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

Lovisa Mbagintao

Secretary

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)

Creative team

Directed by: Bosse Lindquist
Written by: Bosse Lindquist
Produced by: Jonas Kellagher

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