The Genius and the Boys

The Genius and the Boys

2009
1h 29m
6.0

6.0/10

2 votes • View on IMDb
TV Movie Documentary
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)

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Production Information

Production Companies
ARTE GEIE BBC Storyville DR-Dokumentar Eight Millimetres SVT Dokumentär Svenska Filminstitutet
Production Countries
Sweden
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

child abuse sexual abuse nobel prize d. carleton gajdusek prions

Quick Facts

Original Title Geniet och pojkarna
Release Date November 20, 2009
Status Released
Language SV
IMDb ID tt1640702

Cast

Bosse Lindquist
Bosse Lindquist

Narrator

Michael Alpers
Michael Alpers

Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

Warwick Anderson
Warwick Anderson

Professor in Medical Anthropology

Sena Anua
Sena Anua

Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

Robert Gajdusek
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
Lovisa Mbagintao

Secretary

Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Benoît B. Mandelbrot

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

Key Crew

Bosse Lindquist
Director
Jonas Kellagher
Producer
Bosse Lindquist
Writer