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The Genius and the Boys (2009)

ALL 06/01/2009 (en) TV Movie, Documentary 89 Min
  • Release
    06/01/2009
  • Production
    ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär, Svenska Filminstitutet
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    The Genius and the Boys
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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)

  1. Bosse Lindquist

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Jonas Kellagher

    Producer



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  1. Michael Alpers

    Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru

  2. Warwick Anderson

    Professor in Medical Anthropology

  3. Sena Anua

    Medical Reporter - PNGIMR

  4. Carleton Gajdusek

    Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc

  5. Robert Gajdusek

    Brother

  6. Robert Gallo

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

  7. Oliver Sacks

    Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

  8. Lovisa Mbagintao

    Secretary

  9. Benoît B. Mandelbrot

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

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Casts : 9 , Crews : 5

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The Genius and the Boys (2009) 89 Min

ALL 06/01/2009 (en)
TV Movie, Documentary
  • Release 06/01/2009
  • Production
    ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär, Svenska Filminstitutet
  • Original title The Genius and the Boys
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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)

  1. Bosse Lindquist

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Bernhard Winkler

    Editor

  4. Jonas Kellagher

    Producer



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