The Genius and the Boys

1. november 2009 blev The Genius and the Boys udgivet.

The Genius and the Boys blev instrueret af Bosse Lindquist.

The Genius and the Boys har en spilletid på 89 m.

The Genius and the Boys blev produceret af Jonas Kellagher.

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 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.

Nøglepersonerne i The Genius and the Boys er Narrator (Bosse Lindquist), Himself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru (Michael Alpers), Professor in Medical Anthropology (Warwick Anderson).

The Genius and the Boys er en Documentary, Biography, TV film-film.

The Genius and the Boys har en publikumsbedømmelse på 7.4 ud af 10.

The Genius and the Boys havde et budget på 3,9 mia. US$.