Release Date

20 Nov, 2009

Runtime

01:29: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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)

Original Title

Geniet och pojkarna

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Actors

Bosse Lindquist

Michael Alpers

Warwick Anderson

Sena Anua

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Robert Gajdusek

Robert Gallo

Oliver Sacks

Lovisa Mbagintao

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Crew

Lars Heleander

Bosse Lindquist

Bernhard Winkler

Jonas Kellagher

Bosse Lindquist