Movie Description
The Genius and the Boys
(2009)Overview
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)
Featured Crew
- Director : Bosse Lindquist
- Producer : Jonas Kellagher
- Writer : Bosse Lindquist
- Editor : Bernhard Winkler
- Cast : Michael Alpers,Warwick Anderson,Sena Anua,Carleton Gajdusek,Robert Gajdusek,Robert Gallo,Oliver Sacks,Lovisa Mbagintao,Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Cast
Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru
Professor in Medical Anthropology
Medical Reporter - PNGIMR
Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc
Brother
Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author
Secretary
Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)
Posters
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A
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Facts
Original TitleThe Genius and the Boys
Status Released
Release Information
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2009-06-01
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 29m
Production CompaniesARTE GEIE,BBC Storyville,DR-Dokumentar,Eight Millimetres,SVT Dokumentär,Svenska Filminstitutet
Genres
- TV Movie
- Documentary
