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  • The Genius and the Boys (2009)
  • TV Movie | Documentary, Biography
The Genius and the Boys (2009)
TV Movie | Documentary, Biography
The documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as twenty previously unknown stone-age peoples and ...See moreThe documentary investigates late American Nobel laureate Carleton Gajdusek's enigmatic discoveries. Gajdusek discovered mad cow disease on Papua New Guinea in the fifties, as well as twenty previously unknown stone-age peoples and languages. From the late 1940's and onwards he commuted the world, focusing on the most isolated peoples still remaining on the globe. He adopted 57 children to his commune at the National Institutes of Health, MA, USA -most of them boys. In the late 90's he was charged with having abused one of the boys in his care - a then 16-year old boy from Micronesia. The film reveals how Gajdusek in fact was a self-proclaimed pedophile, who admitted to having had sex with numerous other children as well. One man who was abused in childhood is interviewed in the film, as well as several legendary scientists who were friends of Gajdusek and deemed the sexual parts of his character as of less importance. Written by Bosse Lindquist See less
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Director
Bosse Lindquist
Writer
Bosse Lindquist (written by)
Producer
Jonas Kellagher
Editor
Bernhard Winkler
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Release date
Jun 1, 2009 (United Kingdom)

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9 cast members
Name Known for
Michael Alpers
Self - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru Self - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru   See fewer
Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)
Warwick Anderson
Professor in Medical Anthropology Professor in Medical Anthropology   See fewer
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Sena Anua
Medical Reporter - PNGIMR Medical Reporter - PNGIMR   See fewer
The Genius and the Boys (2009)
Carleton Gajdusek
Self - Virologist - Anthropologist - LInguist - Author - etc Self - Virologist - Anthropologist - LInguist - Author - etc   See fewer
Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)
Robert Gajdusek
Brother Brother   See fewer
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Robert Gallo
Self - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV Self - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV   See fewer
Horizon (I) (1964)
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot) Self - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)   See fewer
Clouds are not Spheres (1995)
Lovisa Mbagintao
Secretary Secretary   See fewer
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Oliver Sacks
Self - Professor of Neurology and Author Self - Professor of Neurology and Author   See fewer
Awakenings (1990)
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