The Genius and the Boys (2009)
1h 29m
Running Time
June 1, 2009Release Date
The Genius and the Boys (2009)
1h 29m
Running Time
June 1, 2009Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

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)

Lars Heleander
Production Manager

Bosse Lindquist
Director / Writer

Jonas Kellagher
Producer

Bernhard Winkler
Editor

Gunnar Källström
Cinematographer

Sven Lindahl Ranelf
Cinematographer

Erik Vallsten
Cinematographer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
nobel prize
d. carleton gajdusek
prions
paedophile
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