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The Genius and the Boys (2009)
TV Movie | 84 min | Documentary, Biography

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The Genius and the Boys (2009)

TV Movie | 84 min | 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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Name	Known for
Bosse Lindquist Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	Estonia och myterna (2023)
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 Self - Professor in Medical Anthropology Self - Professor in Medical Anthropology See fewer	The Genius and the Boys (2009)
Sena Anua Self - Medical Reporter Self - Medical Reporter See fewer	The Genius and the Boys (2009)
Carleton Gajdusek Self - Anthropologist Self - Anthropologist See fewer	Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)
Robert Gajdusek Self - Brother Self - Brother See fewer	The Genius and the Boys (2009)
Robert Gallo Self - Director - Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV Self - Director - Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV See fewer	Die AIDS-Rebellen (1992)
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 Self - Secretary Self - Secretary See fewer	The Genius and the Boys (2009)
Oliver Sacks Self - Professor of Neurology and Author Self - Professor of Neurology and Author See fewer	Awakenings (1990)

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