The Genius and the Boys
2009, SV. 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)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- SV
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Cast & crew
- Bosse LindquistDirector
- Bosse LindquistNarrator
- Michael AlpersHimself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru
- Warwick AndersonProfessor in Medical Anthropology
- Sena AnuaMedical Reporter - PNGIMR
- Daniel Carleton GajdusekHimself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc
- Robert GajdusekBrother
- Robert GalloHimself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
- Oliver SacksHimself - Professor of Neurology and Author
- Lovisa MbagintaoSecretary
- Benoît B. MandelbrotHimself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)
Details
- Released
- 20 November 2009
- Original title
- Geniet och pojkarna
- Country
- Sweden
- Written by
- Bosse Lindquist
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The Genius and the Boys isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 20 November 2009. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Genius and the Boys?
If you liked The Genius and the Boys, try Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows, Seven Up!.
Who directed The Genius and the Boys?
The Genius and the Boys (2009) was directed by Bosse Lindquist and stars Bosse Lindquist, Michael Alpers, Warwick Anderson.