
The Genius and the Boys

Watch movie: The Genius and the Boys Released in (2009) produced by Sweden, The movie categorized in Documentary, TV-Movie, and content rating Documentary with duration 90 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Bosse Lindquist. 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)
Genre: Documentary, TV-Movie
Actor: Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson, Sena Anua, Carleton Gajdusek, Robert Gajdusek, Robert Gallo, Oliver Sacks, Lovisa Mbagintao, Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Director: Bosse Lindquist
Country: Sweden
Produced By: ARTE GEIE, BBC Storyville, DR-Dokumentar, Eight Millimetres, SVT Dokumentär, Svenska Filminstitutet, NRK
Runtime: 90
Release: 2009
Rating: 6 out of 10
Language: English,
Views: 460
Content Rating:Documentary
Quality: DVD