The Genius and the Boys

Опис

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)

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Випущено

Дата виходу

20 листопада 2009 р.

Мова оригіналу

англійська

Розмовні мови

англійська

Країни

Швеція

Виробництво

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

У ролях

Bosse Lindquist,Lovisa Mbagintao,Sena Anua,Warwick Anderson,Robert Gajdusek,Daniel Carleton Gajdusek,Oliver Sacks,Robert Gallo,Benoît B. Mandelbrot,Michael Alpers

Режисер

Bosse Lindquist

Сценарій

Bosse Lindquist

Продюсер

Jonas Kellagher

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