The Genius and the Boys (2009)
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)
| Movie ID | 123457 |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary, TV Movie |
| Director | Bosse Lindquist |
| Main cast | Bosse Lindquist, Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Robert Gajdusek, Robert Gallo, Oliver Sacks |
| Release date | 20 November 2009 |
| Release year | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Duration | 89 min (1h 29m) |
| Rating | 6.0 / 10 (TMDB) |
| Production house | ARTE GEIE |
Director: Bosse Lindquist
Writers: Bosse Lindquist
Top cast
Bosse LindquistNarrator
Michael AlpersHimself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru
Warwick AndersonProfessor in Medical Anthropology
Sena AnuaMedical Reporter - PNGIMR
Daniel Carleton GajdusekHimself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc
Robert GajdusekBrother
Robert GalloHimself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
Oliver SacksHimself - Professor of Neurology and Author
Lovisa MbagintaoSecretary
Benoît B. MandelbrotHimself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)
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