The Genius and the Boys
2009 | 89m | English
Popularity: 0.4 (history)
| Director: | Bosse Lindquist |
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| Writer: | Bosse Lindquist |
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| 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) | |
| Release Date: | Jun 01, 2009 |
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| Director: | Bosse Lindquist |
| Writer: | Bosse Lindquist |
| Genres: | Documentary, TV Movie |
| Keywords | nobel prize, d. carleton gajdusek, prions, paedophile |
| Production Companies | Svenska Filminstitutet, ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 29, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Michael Alpers | Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru |
| Warwick Anderson | Professor in Medical Anthropology |
| Sena Anua | Medical Reporter - PNGIMR |
| Carleton Gajdusek | Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc |
| Robert Gajdusek | Brother |
| Robert Gallo | Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV |
| 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) |
| Name | Job |
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| Bernhard Winkler | Editor |
| Lars Heleander | Production Manager |
| Bosse Lindquist | Director, Writer |
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| Jonas Kellagher | Producer |
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