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The Genius and the Boys

06/01/2009

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1hr 29min

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TV Movie

,Documentary

STORY

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)

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Michael Alpers
  • Warwick Anderson
  • Sena Anua
  • Carleton Gajdusek
  • Robert Gajdusek

    Director

  • Bosse Lindquist

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ARTE GEIE
  • BBC Storyville
  • DR-Dokumentar
  • Eight Millimetres
  • SVT Dokumentär
  • Svenska Filminstitutet

    Production Countries

  • Sweden

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

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)

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