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)
Director: Bosse Lindquist
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Bosse Lindquist as Narrator |
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Michael Alpers as Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru |
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Warwick Anderson as Professor in Medical Anthropology |
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Sena Anua as Medical Reporter - PNGIMR |
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Daniel Carleton Gajdusek as Himself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc |
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Robert Gajdusek as Brother |
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Robert Gallo as Himself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV |
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Oliver Sacks as Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author |
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Lovisa Mbagintao as Secretary |
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Benoît B. Mandelbrot as Himself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot) |
| Production | Lars Heleander | Production Manager |
| Directing | Bosse Lindquist | Director |
| Production | Jonas Kellagher | Producer |
| Writing | Bosse Lindquist | Writer |
| Editing | Bernhard Winkler | Editor |
